Tag: science

Indigenous Science… – HotAir

If there is one thing that universities need it is science departments filled with people who use “Indigenous ways of knowing” or those who can” infuse Indigenous science approaches and perspectives into science.” Western science is a White supremacist exercise dedicated to spreading settler colonialism, committing genocide of alphabet people, and too firmly embracing the […]

The Party of Science™ – HotAir

Nobody has accused Sheila Jackson Lee of being the sharpest tool in the shed.  In fact, she is about as dull as a knife that was buried near a stream for 150 years.  But still, she was a member of the House Science Committee and the Ranking Member on the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, and […]

A world under the spell of pseudo science

IN HIS seminal 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that science is not an objective form of knowledge by which scientists reveal the laws of the natural world, rather it could be thought of as a social institution, where scientific discourse emerges through the dynamics of the personalities involved, the influence of social […]