Ideology can shape your scientific world view. Lysenkoism is an interesting phenomenon that grew out of materialist philosophy, which viewed gene science and evolution as racist.
Still worth noting however that human "essence" (fundamentally different from animals) is also integral to Marxist philosophy, which seems to go against the claims of people who criticize "biological essentialism."
We really need more people to understand Hume's 'is ought dichotomy.' The default and accepted response to someone saying "that's offensive so it's not true," should be wow, you are an idiot. It should be a rule that if anyone pulls that out whatever education credentials they have should be taken from them on the spot. It should take 8 years to get a phd, and 1 sentence to have it taken away.
Look at how many woke rules this Marx quote breaks:
The censored press remains bad even when it turns out good products, for these products are good only insofar as they represent the free press within the censored press, and insofar as it is not in their character to be products of the censored press.
The free press remains good even when it produces bad products, for the latter are deviations from the essential nature of the free press. A eunuch remains a bad human being even when he has a good voice. Nature remains good even when she produces monstrosities.
The essence of the free press is the characterful, rational, moral essence of freedom. The character of the censored press is the characterless monster of unfreedom; it is a civilised monster, a perfumed abortion.
Speech is not violence
Chopping off your dick doesn't turn you into something more than a man, only less of one
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Ideology can shape your scientific world view. Lysenkoism is an interesting phenomenon that grew out of materialist philosophy, which viewed gene science and evolution as racist.
Still worth noting however that human "essence" (fundamentally different from animals) is also integral to Marxist philosophy, which seems to go against the claims of people who criticize "biological essentialism."
We really need more people to understand Hume's 'is ought dichotomy.' The default and accepted response to someone saying "that's offensive so it's not true," should be wow, you are an idiot. It should be a rule that if anyone pulls that out whatever education credentials they have should be taken from them on the spot. It should take 8 years to get a phd, and 1 sentence to have it taken away.
The world would be a better place if we did that.
Look at how many woke rules this Marx quote breaks: