Calling Bullshit 7.2: Science Is Amazing, But ...

Science is probably the greatest human invention of all time, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with its share of bullshit.
May 10, 2017

Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.

The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.

Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

[gavinmc]

Maybe we need a Venn diagram infographic that shows how science is or is not the new religion. Or perhaps an XY graph that denies religion and lauds science (or vice versa) as a binary function of truth versus ignorance.

[havenbastion]

Science is rigor and best practices for rigor are anything but arbitrary. If you're doing science, your society is irrelevant except with respect to resource allocation.

Science is sometimes contingent, never arbitrary.

[jayvee]

Science is the new "God".
Scientists are "Christ".
And all of the apostle's are blindly following these Christ-like figures and their "Word".