/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>6082076
No racism on /sci/

>>6082117
Have you seen the race/IQ threads here? "No racism on /sci/" is objectively false.

>>6082126
I do not care. It is a rule.
If you want to be racist, then go to /b/.

>>6082126
How are the IQ threads "racist"? Facts are not racist. It only becomes racist when you draw unjustified conclusions.

>>6082156
Offensive facts are still offensive. Just because an offensive statement might happen to be true is no justification for saying it.

>>6082160
Facts are just facts. Calling them "offensive" is a value judgement reflecting nothing but your opinion.

>>6082160
>>6082156

please stop samefagging and shitposting when there are boards for this stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nigeria#Early_history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nigeria#Yoruba

Magnavita, Carlos/Breunig, Peter/Ameje, James/Posselt, Martin: "Zilum: a mid-first millennium BC fortified settlement near Lake Chad". Journal of African Archaeology 4, 1 (2006), S. 153-169.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agisymba

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture

Lange, D. 2011. The founding of Kanem by Assyrian Refugees ca. 600 BCE: Documentary, Linguistic, and Archaeological Evidence (PDF; 1,6 MB). Boston.

http://dierklange.com/pdf/reviews/dierklange_allgemein/FOUNDING_9.5.2011.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes

>>6082169
Nietzsche said, "There are no facts, only interpretations." Therefore, your interpretation is also an opinion. If it is offensive, you can't say it.

>>6082179
Do you really expect us to read all of those links?
If you are trying to make a point, then make it.

>>6082183
>quoting a philosopher

This is a science board, not a pseudo-intellectualism board.

>>6082191
>unable to controvert the statement
>wants the statement banned from the board

Sorry if my truth offended you. I won't say it again.

>>6082183
>There are no facts, only interpretations
is that a fact?

>>6082184
Once I got mad at those 'no cities were ever built in africa hurr durr' threads because of that stupid racism. And those links give info on how there were indeed high cultures in Black Africa, even without Arab influence. I've been waiting for the next idiotic racist. And I'll post them again in the next idiotic racism thread I notice.

>>6082200
>philosophy
>fact

Do you even science?

>>6082206
Good for you :)

But you should know, idiot racists will not read your links.
They do not want to change their opinions.
Being bigoted makes them feel good. They feel superior.
They will not let you take that away, no matter how demonstrably wrong they are.

>>6082206
no one even said anything about 'no cities were built in africa' itt

quit being so insecure

>>6082209
That's how Nietzsche and I see it.

>>6082211
Science is investigative philosophy.

>>6082221
Science and philosophy are polar opposites. The rationality of the scientific method is incompatible with the philosophical anti-intellectualism of "u cannot know nuthin".

>>6082221
hahahah oh wow what a faggot

>>6082223
Take your mindless insults to /b/

>4chan global rule 3: Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases...

>>6082225
It saddens me how many people consider themselves scientists, but have never read Karl Popper or Thomas Kuhn.
You really should know the history and philosophy of your discipline.

>>6082241
All I need is the scientific method. The scientific method is true irregardless of whether any scientiifcally illiterate philosophers intervene with a "u cannot know nuthin".

>>6082246
lel you're like some hardcore fundie

ALL I NEED IS MUH JESUS AND IT WILL ALL BE OKAY

>>6082256
Science is not a religion.

>>6082246
It is based upon the philosophy of empiricism, which is the idea that our senses reflect an external reality which is consistent and would exist even if no one was here to see it.

You really don't know anything about philosophy if you think all philosophy is nihilistic.

>>6082246

scientific method is also fundamentally flawed.

it relies on ungrounded faith on statistics to point us toward the right answer under all circumstances.

and indeed, we do see results obtained in experimentation occasionally confounded by such phenomena as the decline effect.

>>6082265
then why do you treat it like one?

>>6082265
scientificism is

>>6082273
That is so wrong.

>>6082264
>>6082273
The scientific method works and is the only valid method of finding objective truth. Deal with it, pseudo-intellectuals.

>>6082281
That's not even a real word.

>>6082282
I don't.

>>6082288
>The scientific method works and is the only valid method of finding objective truth
how do you prove this using the scientific method?

>>6082288
>consciousness exists
stormfags...

>>6082298
Use your common sense.

>>6082310
lmao did you really give up that easily? I'm disappointed

>>6082314
Give up what? You asked a question and I answered.

>>6082310
"Common Sense is what tells you the world is flat." -- Terry Pratchett

>>6082433
>2013
>quoting Terry Pratchett

The man literally wears a fedora.

>>6082446
and has altzeimers

>>6082446
He has a matching jacket, whereas examples of fedoras looking bad are typically something along the lines of pinstripe with plaid or going shirtless yet still wearing a hat meant for dressing up.

>>6082183
>neitzche

>>6082160
>muh feelings trumps scientific observation

>>6082446

Old men are allowed to wear fedoras.

>>6082446
I wear a fedora.
Over my grey hair with a suit and tie.
There is a right way to do it.

>>6083869
Everyone is.

>>6082446
He wore a fedora before it was cool.

>>6082179
Good links, but the last three links you have have nothing to do with subSaharan Africans. The Assyrians weren't black, nor the Berbers

>>6082460
Pratchett has been writing so long and prolifically, that the 1% of his brain cells remaining can still write good books. He has hired an assistant to help him remember new characters and plot threads, though.

I kind of get why he wrote so much about Death, now.