This statement, with its hilariously obvious philosophical presumptions, its ignorance of the nature of “Science” as a human endeavor both ancient and modern (both of which require some sort of fundamental grounding he’s too dumb to even see)...

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Coupled w/his consistent history of denigrating philosophy like a 5th grader who keeps saying “this seems silly lol just measure something” is the best evidence of the absolute failure of modern education. We can trace the trajectory of Science popularizers from Heisenberg

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And Einstein and Bohm and Bohr and all those who struggled with Quantum Physics, aware of the philosophical difficulties; to the second tier, first your Feynmans and then your Sagans, who at least understood the difficulties presented, albeit crudely at times, to

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Your Tysons and your Dawkins, who, pace their expertise in their fields, (although...) are men who could not understand a philosophical issue or reason their way out of a cardboard box without fundamentally misunderstanding it (See, eg, The God Delusion)

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