Is science actually about truth? I hear this a lot but it seems like, in most fields, truth is actually a colloquialism for useful truth. Take the various domains of theoretical physics, the fields of gender and social justice studies, and basically any field that is an applied version of another; our theories that guide our beliefs about the universe surpassed what's actually verifiable (for now if nothing else) a long time ago. This isn't to say that we should suddenly rebel against academics, but it's worth bearing in mind because we are quickly entering an age where it's unreasonable to expect non-specialist to actually understand basically anything in a manner that comports with academic consensus on the topic. For democracies this is a big deal.
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