The American Antroplogical Association declared that anthropology is not science. What is then? Apparently, it strives to be a political correctness movement to advance equality, socialism and in general, a sense of feeling-good for humanity. "The anti-science anthropologists fear that if anthropology is allowed to be a science, then all sorts of politically incorrect scientific knowledge about humanity will emerge" (Steve Sailer). Maybe it never was a real science. "Coming of age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead paints sexually free Samoan girls when reality of pre-industrial societies is strict enforcement of premarital virginity, including in the case of Samoa, a public ceremony of deflowering of virgins with a chicken bone. Well, I really dont know, Polinesian girls were always praised by ancient mariners.
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Of course it was never "science". Even science is barely science, as we have seen from the global warming "data". Grigori Perelman, a true scientist (mathematician) has refused the Field Medal because academia is such a brothel and he is an honest man who refuses to enter a house of ill repute. Anthropology is even more remove from true science - it is what Freudians call "projection" - the "primitive" peoples are blank canvasses upon which we project our own preconceptions and (sexual) fantasies. Since these change with the times and fashions, anthropology must be made malleable so that it can change with the times as well. As true science is timeless, it does not form a suitable framework for such projects of projection and must be rejected. Even gravity is just a construct of dead white men.
K
Maybe it is better that they stop pretending to be "science". Marxists used to call themselves "scientific socialists" because science gave them an air of respectability and inevitability. Now pomos no longer believe in science, so they are anxious to jump off the scientific bandwagon, but science still carries some weight with the public so maybe they are doing the public a favor by admitting that what they are doing is a purely political project that has nothing to do with science. The next question is why the public should fund their political projects.
K
"Grigori Perelman, a true scientist (mathematician)"
How is math a science? It's not empirical, or experimental.
Without math there is no science. 2+2=4 CAN be empirically tested - take 2 stones and put them in a jar, then put 2 more stones in the jar, then count the total # of stones in the jar.
K
On the contrary, Dave. Math and probabilistics are experimental. We know that throwing up coins and seeing how that fall produces a Gaussian distribution, but we dont know why.
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