Science’s claim to exclusive truth paradoxically enabled its own destructiveness

Evidence

Whatever science, as a paradigm, says is the truth and nothing but the truth (however much certain individual scientists may disagree with this pervasive dictum). Yet, the indispensable and crucial addendum “nothing but the truth” is clearly intended to eliminate the possibility of including with the truth a nontruth, a lie, a deception, a malicious design, which creates for any rational being an insurmountable paradox made patently obvious by the destructiveness of science. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 362 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Science denial pioneered tactics now applied across all factual reality; Science’s objectivity rationalizes endless growth as the only good life. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 543; The practice of science is distinct from the destructive scientific worldview — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1268 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Science’s truth-claims create a paradox because its destructive products are also true #responds-to (0.92) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 362