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Kylo Ginsberg's avatar

This was an excellent piece, and really helped crystallize my thinking on this subject. Thanks so much.

The thread here thinking of science as a social construct (apologies for paraphrasing your nuance poorly) reminds me very much of Paul Feyerabend's work, e.g. Science in a Free Society.

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Ryan Avent's avatar

Thanks for reading! That's an interesting comparison. I feel like I need to think a little more about what the relationship between science and society ought ideally to be. Something to come back to...

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