How bad faith actors in Science and its identitarianism critics enable each other.

James Lindsay did an interview with Accad and Koka Report. Lindsay argues against postmodernism, identitarianism, woke, cultural relativism, and epistemic relativist views of science.

But, sometimes the "scientists" and "experts" are wrong. How can we tell? Like James says: "ask for evidence". If the scientist/expert understands "The Science", they'll be able argue for their view on the basis of science - NOT on the basis of their membership of the scientific elite - but on the basis of evidence arrived at by experiment and observation. If scientists/experts don't try to argue from the evience then that's a good sign they are fake scientists.

Paradoxically :

1. pomos and identitarians - fighting "power" - enable actual power (billionaires, governments, power elites, big business, NGOs, GOs, IGOs, cartels, .... ) to corrupt science ! They enable power by pretending to "fight" against it. Because epistemic relativist arguments against science are fake arguments.
2. fake scientists - who don't argue from the evidence - but argue from expertise, credentials, 'argument from authority', ... - enable pomo, identitarians, and epistemic relativism. Because when we argue that we're right on the basis of some abstraction (The Science), or some other fallacy, then we enable rampant skepticism, pomo, and suspicion of ALL truths.

One set of bad faith, actors enable the other set - who they pretend to think of as their nemesis - by using wrong arguments.

BTW:

1. statistical correlation alone is not a scientific argument
2. BTW: some of these bad faith scientists I refer to seem to be pomos themselves - they certainly don't have an argument against pomo

Established science is sometimes (or often) wrong.

See:

1. Retration Watch.
2. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, John P. A. Ioannidis, 2005
3. What has happened down here is the winds have changed, Andrew Gelman, 2016
4. Cargo-cult statistics and scientific crisis, Philip B. Stark & Andrea Saltelli, 2018
5. What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant
6. “It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.”-
   - Professor emeritus Hal Lewis