/sci/ - Science & Math

All this anti-intellectualism, rampant throughout today’s society, is simple jealousy. It is bullying of the nerdy kid in school, writ large.

Is there any board on 4chan that's more anti-intellectual than /sci/?
How did this even happen? Is it simply a target because writ large this is where the intellectuals gather on 4chan?

I feel like the number of anti-intellectual posters here is growing and at this point there maybe an equal or greater number of anti-intellectual posters than there are good faith /sci/ posters here. How do you combat anti-intellectualism on 4chan, or even in society as a whole for that matter? Is there nothing to be done? Is it all just a slow decay from this point forward? Are we witnessing the decline?

>not understanding logical fallacies

All logical fallacies do is tell you are what “isn’t inherently correlated to truth”.
Authority isn’t inherently correlated to truth.
Popularity isn’t inherently correlated to truth.
And yes, popular authority isn’t inherently correlated to truth.

However, this doesn’t mean arguments made from authority, popularity, or popular authority could not be true at the end. So even with the logical fallacies taken into consideration, you still need to find a “method” that is going to bring you closest to the “truth”. Following? The logical fallacies don’t help you do this.

> the best course of action is to look at the data and draw your one conclusions

No. That is retarded nonsense. You’re saying your "judgment" on a technical matter should be as valid as an “expert” opinion? This is demonstrably false. The best course of action ends up being to use expert consensus. This doesn’t mean it is “sure to be true”, it just means that it is “closest path we have to the truth”. And you could even further dissect the expert consensus, trying to eliminate biases and things like that, if you were so inclined.