/sci/ - Science & Math

>i desperately cling to the word "science" because if i do that means i can never be wrong, cuz thats the definition of science
>i cant make any argument on my own without just repeating what people smarter than me said
>so long as i get scared into thinking something is a big deal and will kill us all, then ill totally objectively believe it because im not being emotionally manipulated
>ill buy into anything so long as a lot of other people do, and then mock the people who dont, cuz that means theyre wrong
how many times do you want to play this same hand

>Physicists are not exempt from society, they are a part of it. And so we too must grapple with the harrowing trauma of slavery as it continues to echo through the generations. A reappraisal of the roots of modern science is therefore inevitable: we attribute many of the ideals that we hold dearest to the Enlightenment — the age of reason, liberty and progress. Yet we still tend to ignore what lies in its shadow: the age of European empires, of plunder and of exploitation.