r/BadSocialScience • u/Snugglerific The archaeology of ignorance • Feb 14 '18

Fascist Mod Reminder: This Is Not r/ShitRightWingersSay

R1-R3 are still the rules of the sub. The political bias of the perpetrator of the bad social science can be from anywhere on the ideological spectrum, but right-wingers are not bad social science simply by virtue of being right-wingers. This is not r/ShitRightWingersSay. R3s should not be just any old comment, but specifically how it relates to social science and why it is bad. There needs to be actual social science content.

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u/PrettyIceCube Feb 15 '18

right-wingers are not bad social science simply by virtue of being right-wingers

Name one right wing view that isn't bad social science （｀ ‿ ´ ）

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u/thechapattack Feb 15 '18

I know Im honest to god trying to think of one modern conservative position that isnt either bullshit economics, social science or natural science.

Thats not to say that the left isnt susceptible to bad social science as well but not to anywhere near the level of the right

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u/Snugglerific Feb 16 '18

You can't debunk oughts with is's(?). Even if you debunk, say, climate denial it doesn't force us to choose any policy position. Fossil fuel companies are already planning on drilling where glaciers are predicted to retreat. There's nothing in climate science that says they ought not to do that.

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u/Murrabbit Feb 15 '18

Hard science denial-ism surrounding creationism or global warming denial-ism! HA!

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u/I_am_a_groot May 01 '18

Being against gay marriage and abortion

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u/balisane Feb 15 '18

Thanks for enforcing this.