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COVxy posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

Science exists within social systems. Science is not in itself a social system. There's a big difference. Social systems can be based on nonsense. Science is based on empirical evidence, peer review, reproducibility, and technology.

Science is rigorous and testable and reproducible. A social system is just a sociologist's attempt at finding patterns amongst groups and using those patterns to build some explanatory framework. Science is a lot more than that.

Again, science as an entity is not separable from those who do it and the social demands of the scientific community. Certain ideas, regardless of the data, become more or less "sexy" depending on the trends.

You don't know what you're talking about. Science is completely separable from those who do it, which is why it is reproducible. It is based on evidence and tests and falsifying claims. None of that depends on who is doing it, and science will always be science regardless of demands someone might make.