Is SciFo a science forum?

[Kittamaru]

It's not the non-science that's the problem, it's the contempt for rationality and denial of critical thought that's the problem.

I'll drink to that.

 

[birch]

it's the contempt for rationality and denial of critical thought that's the problem.

the problem is what one thinks is critical thought and rationality can sometimes dismiss what is going on. the universe isn't always rational, that is why.

 

[DaveC426913]

the universe isn't always rational, that is why.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't be.

My cat is irrationally howling and running around. If I am to understand him, I guess I should put a surgical glove on my head and call myself a squid?

 

[Seattle]

That doesn't mean we shouldn't be.

My cat is irrationally howling and running around. If I am to understand him, I guess I should put a surgical glove on my head and call myself a squid?

I don't think that would help but may God bless you.

 

[Kittamaru]

That doesn't mean we shouldn't be.

My cat is irrationally howling and running around. If I am to understand him, I guess I should put a surgical glove on my head and call myself a squid?

You're a kid now. You're a squid now. Splatoon! (sorry, couldn't resist)

 

[iceaura]

Science site or not science site. Either way is fine. But they gotta pick one.

All of these forums live in the intersection of STEM and its context of human culture. They exist as part of the adjustment of one to the other - the explaining and understanding of one to the other. Excluding either "side" destroys them.

Some difficulty arises when the science side forgets its ignorance and starts preaching. Some when the culture side forgets its ignorance and mistakes inspiration for evidence. Neither is insurmountable, given reason.

If the hallmark of the modern world is the incorporation of scientific understanding in human culture, places like this is where that happens. Maybe as a side effect, but nevertheless.