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Science vs History
Topic Started: Mar 23 2016, 04:57 AM (351 Views)
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My Dear Melancholy,

This a little change of pace of the tired same old
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debate of religion vs science. Today I've found stuff on science vs history.

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For centuries, clashes between science and religion have made waves within society at large and in the academic world. You probably haven’t heard very much, though, about similar clashes between science and history.

Yet scientists and historians have fundamentally different perspectives on history, especially when it’s the history of science. Scientists tend to celebrate the discoveries of the past that built the knowledge of the present. Historians argue that the scientists of the past should be viewed through the lens of their own time, not evaluated on the relevance of their work to today’s textbooks.

One prominent physicist who objects to the historians’ modus operandi is Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin. His 2015 book To Understand the World unabashedly analyzes the scientific past in the light of the present. “I knew from the beginning that I was being naughty,” Weinberg said March 14 at a meeting in Baltimore of the American Physical Society.

In technical terms, Weinberg was engaging in “Whig” history (an allusion to criticisms of British historical accounts involving a prominent political party). Whig historians write (or rewrite) history as a story validating the chain of events that created present-day circumstances.

Read @ https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/physicists-story-science-breaks-historians-rules?tgt=more





I'm completely lost by this to be honest.
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Leve Feyenoord 1!

This is not science vs history.
This is scientists vs historians.
Scientists critisizing the modus operandi of historians. their professions however aren't clashing at all. They most often go hand in hand.
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My Dear Melancholy,

That's a typo on my part. Damn autocorrect don't think scientist is a word. Wtf apple
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QueenTD
Mar 23 2016, 12:34 PM
That's a typo on my part. Damn autocorrect don't think scientist > a word. Wtf apple
You're using a iPhone so where did you expect that's not funny man?

you can't contribute to this thread though.
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I know this is being stereotypical; most scientist and historians I know fall into a certain category personality wise. They are all kind of similar in their views of the world. They are gonna clash you know when talking about an overlapping subject. Hell even pure math majors and some science majors clash. Mostly because math uses deductive logical while science mostly relies on inductive logic.
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