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spiderwort@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Should we replace democracy with science?

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Should we replace democracy with science?

spiderwort@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    How about the current system where we vote and do science?

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      1 year ago

      99% of the voters wouldn’t know science if it bit them on the butt

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        You make a good case for your own argument.

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          1 year ago

          Well somebody’s got to.

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            I mean, trying to prove your own theory by being the perfect case study seems a little extreme…

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        Sounds like a wildly unscientific statement, considering e.g ~10% of the US population works in STEM.

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          That doesn’t seem to make much of a difference, strangely enough.

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      Or, maybe we already do 100% science. It’s just that the agenda isn’t precisely popular. And the voting is just for show.

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        Science is an empirical method of finding fact.

        Government is a philosophical method of seeking truth.

        You are being pretty incoherent.

        How does science determine the order initiatives are addressed?

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          Well first we would change beans into peas.

          The rest is trivial.

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