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[–]ClassroomPast6178 26 insightful - 3 fun26 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 3 fun - 1 year ago (3 children)
A disingenuous argument. When there was sufficient evidence for multiple chemical elements the Classical view of four elements was discarded.
Biologists would happily discard the 2 sex model, if provided sufficient evidence. The biologist who developed the evidence would probably get a Nobel prize in Physiology or some shit. The sticking point is that science doesn’t accept “I feel like a boy today, but yesterday I felt like a girl” as evidence of anything other than an individual with too few real problems.
We went through all this with the creationists in the 00s, if you don’t agree with evolutionary theory that’s great, just provide the evidence for your alternate theory and collect your Nobel. No, what’s written in a book isn’t evidence.
The shameful thing is that a lot of the people who were vocal critics of creationism have suddenly adopted this evidence-less religious belief in trans etc. it’s fucking weird.
[–]Alienhunter糞大名 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
Yep. Actually the four elemental theory of chemical physics was much closer to gender theory as there wasn't a testable model and it was mostly people just making substances fit the categories based on what they felt was right. But of course to be fair, this was centuries ago without the same level of scientific documentation and tools necessary to do the experiments.
Our current understanding of the periodic is also, almost certainly incomplete, and doesn't really describe the fundamental nature of matter. It falls apart below the subatomic, as atoms themselves aren't the fundamental building blocks of matter. There are smaller things still.
The 4 classical elements is actually still somewhat useful as a model because it describes one thing, the four known phases of matter. Earth=solids, water=liquids wind=gas and fire=plasma. It's not describing the fundamental building blocks of matter but they didn't exactly have microscopes back then.
[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Farts=Bose-Einstein Condensate
Hehe
For people without even the philosophical underpinning of the scientific method, the natural philosophers and alchemists did enough that their descendants could incrementally improve on what they left behind.
The willingness to change theories as evidence is uncovered is the key and it’s why the Critical Studies fields can largely be ignored, they’re based on assertions and ignore evidence. They’ve entirely given up on falsifiability, and handwave away inconsistencies and contradictions.
[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
oddly I just remembered a 60s physics comic:
a man standing in a blank panel: "in 1900 humanity has no idea of the universe it inhabited" "then he discovered the triangle" (panel's split up) "then in 1932 he discovered the antitriangle" (the splits are mirrored below the man in the panel) "in 1964 he discovered the rhombus, the serration, the trapezoid, etc." (man's surrounded by lots of odd new shapes) "in the future he will discover the hemidemitriangle" (man's surrounded by smaller triangles) "and by the year 2000, humanity has no idea of the universe it inhabited," surrounded by a uniform mess of tiny triangles
(and even in social sciences you have to at least show your shit; even the silliest conceptual performance art makes you ... perform art, you can't just say "I've talked to other people I know and they agree with my vibe": the "studies" are just op-ed pages with tenure)
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