"Science" is a philosophical methodology, and is neither right nor wrong. However, using science tends to produce highly reliable outcomes (which are implicit in the very nature of the method, but that's a different issue).
Scientists are often very wrong. Lamarck was a very wrong biological theorist. Schottky was very right about tunneling electrons, but a rabid racist.
The current self-definition of the right wing openly rejects the scientific method.
Leftists like me try to nudge centrists like her to be more left-leaning, but they refuse. Usually with the argument that a middle stance is better and more accepting (hey - compromise!) but never with the argument that meeting the far right in the middle accomplishes the same thing. Hypocrites.
Also, FWIW, "centrists" here means "moderate right wing folks."
From the article 'Al-Shamahi, 41, who describes her politics as “wokey-progressive — definitely left-wing”, '
Is it because she's British, from a Muslim background, a Yemeni family, or just that she's a woman that's she's not leftist enough for you?
The point she is making is about not falling into the trap of tribalism. I am very much to the left (pro UBI and nationalization of key industries), but I am regularly disheartened by the primitive hostility and immediate irrational dismissal of people and ideas on the right (or even 'not far enough on the left'). That (we think) they're wrong doesn't justify treating them like shit and doesn't improve the discourse.
The right has made unforced error after unforced error while treating anyone who disagrees with them like the enemy, while also enacting hateful policies and, at this point, undermining the safety and stability of the country. So, no, I won't feel like they deserve the benefit of doubt or general good will.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Note that you didn't provide the requested quote and as such did exactly what I was talking about: irrationally immediately dismissing the author of the article because she dared not being purely left.
> Ella Al-Shamahi, presenter of the BBC’s science series Human, ... says ...
Given her specialty, perhaps she should look into selective pressures against non-left-wing scientists, in recent-decades Western academia? Populations do evolve to better fit their environments and all...
Climate change is happening -> left wing propaganda!
Homosexuality is abundant in nature -> ..
Plus other things that I fear are going to start flame wars, since even among us there are people who won't accept the long standing scientific consensus.
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In Russia and China, the scientists at least claim to be pro-government. In the US, the left wing is against the current government.
Are you saying that there are a lot of right-wing scientists, but that they're afraid of the government? That wouldn't make sense.
Maybe a lot of right-wing scientists exist but don't wish to speak out for some other reason, but it's certainly not the government.
123yawaworht456•6mo ago
in all three countries, dissent is an informal crime.