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1. David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Oct-2015 16:46:16 UTC David Benfell

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   @steve , except for one niggle, @sklaing is entirely correct here. I'll dispense with the niggle first: Where she says Democrats, I would say people on the left. Where she says Republicans, I would say conservatives. Both major parties are increasingly losing legitimacy, as we see with Democrats and Hillary Clinton, as we see with Republicans and Jeb Bush. Now, to what this thread is actually about. First, scientific method, i.e. positivism, has its own issues with what knowledge it considers acceptable, what forms of knowledge it considers acceptable, what methods of inquiry it accepts as legitimate, and an arrogance that it has a right to determine that legitimacy, when it relies on an unverifiable theory of truth (hint: there is no theory of truth that holds water, full stop, period). Second, even within the positivist paradigm, its practice seems severely flawed. One of the very basic principles of positivism--the reason science should be tran…