The practice of science is distinct from the destructive scientific worldview

Evidence

Science is the process of revealing the world through rational inquiry. The practice of doing real science brings the questioner into an unparalleled intimacy with nature fraught with wonder and creativity as we try to comprehend the mysteries of the more-than-human world. Trying to understand the life of another being or another system so unlike our own is often humbling and, for many scientists, is a deeply spiritual pursuit. … Contrasting with this is the scientific worldview, in which a culture uses the process of interpreting science in a cultural context that uses science and technology to reinforce reductionist, materialist economic and political agendas. I maintain that the destructive lens of the people made of wood is not science itself, but the lens of the scientific worldview, the illusion of dominance and control, the separation of knowledge from responsibility. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1268

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the exact definitional separation — practice vs worldview — needed to bridge Indigenous and Western frameworks across all four courses; echoes the earlier chapter distinction between braiding Indigenous science as process versus the objectifying frame. — connects to: Practice undermines theory from within as a destructive element — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100; Science’s claim to exclusive truth paradoxically enabled its own destructiveness; Science’s truth-claims create a paradox because its destructive products are also true — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 362 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Practice undermines theory from within as a destructive element #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100
• Science’s claim to exclusive truth paradoxically enabled its own destructiveness #qualifies (0.80)
• Science’s truth-claims create a paradox because its destructive products are also true #complicates (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 362