Which is the anti-intellectual cliché?
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BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoThis is such anti-intellectual cliche, and it’s a damn shame that a generation of Reddit pseudo-intellectuals parroting a Feynman quote has made it so wide spread.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The post I replied to.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You mean the post at the top? Or the comment you replied to? Either way I don’t really see the cliché.
Do you mean that something being non-falsifiable making it non-scientific is a cliché? That’s how science works: by having theories that can be differentiated with experiment.
Or, of the post, that multiverses contain every conceivable universe, then why anti-intellectual, when it’s just a silly joke?
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The one I replied too. The habit of immediately and smugly going “It can’t be falsified and is therefore the same as the tooth-fairy!” to any ideas that class with their intuition is very much a well worn cliche of reddit style pseudo-intellectual “I fucking love science” types. Bonus points if it is falsifiable.
And yes, falsifiablity is a part of science, but this idea that science means going “if you don’t have a definite experiment that you can perform right now then the idea is stupid and wrong and you’re an idiot for even talking about it” is massively reductive at best and flat out wrong at worst, and if these people applied it in all cases - rather than just to the ones that their gut feeling is against - they’d be throwing out a huge amount of ideas that are most definitely science.
I mean jesus, imagine how arrogant you would have to be to discard all of the very detailed work extremely talented scientists have done in on Quantum Foundations as being no different to believing in the tooth fairy.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I don’t come without credentials. I have a phd in physics
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Hugh Everett also had a PhD in Physics.