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Daft when used as a pejorative (a stand in for calling someone crazy or deranged) absolutely is.
Again simply because the field is yet to be completed doesn't make it illegitimate. Physics has yet to be unified, math has yet to be completed yet they remain science. You are severely uninformed and again I implore you to do some self reflection and actually engage with the science and scientific community. You are not as intelligent as you think and clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
Daft is usually a pejorative, it isn't however ableist that's just crybaby bullshit you're using to try move the conversation into culture war bullshit instead of the actual conversation.
Quite literally the exact reason it's not a science. Science is evidence based l, objective and repeatable. You're implying at some point without any evidence whatsoever that we could end up finding everything is objectively provable through what I can only assume is psychohistory which isn't likely our at all reasonable to assume. The fact the argument started as questioning if morals have weight is just more evidence that social science could never exist only social sciences. Ie. Sciences that relate to society not the science of society because that isn't a thing.
Calling someone crazy or deranged is absolutely ableist. The only one here trying to change the conversation is you.
Entirely not what I said, like completely not even in the same area of anything I said genuinely impressive strawman building.
I wonder what you call the field to which the sub fields you call social sciences might belong, it couldn't possibly be called social science as an umbrella term?!?!?!
You are unintelligent, uninformed and massively arrogant. You clearly have never interacted with or contributed anything to the scientific community and it really shows. Please take some time to reflect instead of continuing to be a debatepervert.
It doesn't solely mean crazy or deranged, it can also mean plain stupid. Take a crack at which I meant. Similarly that still doesn't make it ableist bud.
That's absolutely your implication hence the word imply.
It's not, there's natural science, social sciences and humanities.
So far you've proved nuh uh and the same attitude and arrogance, calm down there pot.
Yes it does bud. You are a an albeist asshole and should be ashamed of yourself.
But it wasn't it was a straw man not even in the same area of thought of anything I said.
I wish I could be as confident as you in just saying shit it really is a skill for the privileged.
See the difference between us is I have interacted with and contributed to the scientific community through my PhD and time as a researcher at a university whereas you given everything I've seen most likely didn't make it past mandatory schooling. You reek of YouTube university educated stemlord.
No it doesn't, use a dictionary. It's not ableist you're just exceptionally thin skinned it seems. Stay away from Europe bud, that's about the tamest informal you're likely to hear.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daft
Its exactly what you implied you're just aware now that it makes very little sense.
Like reading rainbow said confidence is a book away, maybe try that dictionary first. Hint hint it's the tab with the big d on it.
Oh you're funny assuming I haven't and an Internet phd is usually bullshit but do go on establishing yourself as a self proclaimed expert in the field rather then provide literally any evidence or doing any research let alone looking up a word before crying about it for the better part of a day.
Why do you write like the world's most insufferable dork?
Aww, hit a nerve aye?
You just going down the list of cringy redditisms?
Go back to Reddit
I was very clearly responding to
Hence ending that particular sentence in bud not your attempt to weasel out of using ableist language as everyone knows thats bullshit. Daft could have 10,000 other definitions but everyone knows which you meant before you were called out. Trying to shrodingers bigot yourself has never worked for anyone.
It's not at all what I implied and the fact you keep doubling down on this ridiculous strawman is what really makes no sense.
Yeah again were speaking English because it's your language you couldn't even speak to me in any of my more native languages so condescending about it is silly.
It's an educated guess given how you talk about what is and isn't science it's the kind of attitude that would get you laughed out of a lab until you fixed your attitude. It's the attitude of someone who watches science videos or has interest in some field of science like astronomy or astrophysics but has never actually studied it instead watching edutainment about it.
I wasn't crying about anything simply pointing it out and the fact that instead of simply apologising and moving on you felt the need to double triple and quadruple down just shows the kind of person you really are.