Amy Coney Barrett's self-characterization when asked her views on climate change, which she describes as 'controversial' when it is a settled matter globally among those who are indeed scientists.
"Do you believe that climate change is happening and threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink?" Kamala Harris asked.
"I will not express a view on a matter of public policy... that is politically controversial" Judge Barrett answered. "I am not a scientist."
"I will not express a view on a matter of public policy... that is politically controversial" Judge Barrett answered. "I am not a scientist."
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Get the Beach Drink Scientist mug.The paradox of claiming science as the only valid way to know anything: such a claim is not a scientific claim, but a philosophical one. Scientism cannot be validated by the scientific method; it's an article of faith. The hard problem is that it uses the authority of science to make an unscientific, totalizing statement about knowledge, thereby violating its own rule and collapsing into dogma.
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