#Epistemology

Currently reading a Shanghai party committee paper about German industrial practice. It's highlighting to me how the famous Mittelstand firms function as working groups. You can only achieve this with
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summary via friend: "Researchers found that when a transcript showing strong grades was given a black female name, counselors were 20% less likely to recommend them for AP calculus compared
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I'm the eleventeen millionth person to say this, but it's going to need repeating until it sticks: There is a pervasive, persistent myth that secularism is a neutral, neutralizing framework
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My top 5 books of 2020 (n=44) shifted my world-view in some way, convinced me to start writing, & took me on adventures.1. How to Take Smart Notes2. On Writing
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The whole QAnon train demonstrates how mechanisms of faith in an omnipresent and intelligent design are being transplanted on matters of state.These are all predominantly WASPs who've lost an entire
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"The Greatest Threat" always depends upon "to what?" Greatest Threat to the country is the social fragmentation created by globalist capitalism (& ID politics, which capital exploits) & the corporate-tech
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I am extremely done with this myth that you have to be able to withstand aggressive and argumentative questioning in order to be a good/worthy scientist. It is the year
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WARTIME EPISTEMOLOGY1/xInformation sources have 3 levels:LEVEL 1 — Institutional. Certifies incredibly obvious things once they become incredibly obvious. Before things are incredibly obvious, institutions are often wrong or downright mis
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Thread: Can we be honest for a brief moment? There are 5 main arguments believers are having about racism. The conflict over race is not about CRT and its validity.
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Doctors and researchers recognize that translational medicine (a branch of science that aims to take basic research and translate it into evidence-based medical practice) is important. We need a similar
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Polls show 2/3 of Republicans believe the insurrection was a false flag operation, which is psychologically no different than believing the Earth is flat or that highly evolved dinosaurs who
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More and more I'm convinced that Frerie was right: it's not simply that oppressors (defined broadly) don't believe the oppressed about their experience, they don't trust that we have anything
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In traditional cosmology, what is to be "read" is the sky itself: the "lights in the firmament of heaven," which were given to us not only for seasons, and for
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Thinking about this again, and it occurs to me that the ugly truth a lot of people on the left don’t want to face is that a successful leftist political
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Just re-read Charles W. Mills’ “The Racial Contract.” I first read it 15 years ago and it's better than I remembered. I’m struck by how much of Mills’ critique of
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My experience was:a) The med community was *terrible* on masks as of late March -- people I spoke with insisted, "We can't recommend something that wouldn't be approved by the
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