[homefree]

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[plorg]

I would take any scientific claims touted on HN with a grain of salt - there are plenty claims associated with overlapping orthodoxies and heterodoxies being presented all the time.

[array_key_first]

A lot of people are simply in denial about the world we live in. They hold strong beliefs that are based on just their own intuition, and when social sciences challenge that, they double down. And then, they refuse to listen to the actual people said topic is about.

A LOT of people think they have it all figured out about homosexuals and transgender people... having never talked and listened to either. The same things act different in different circumstances.

[taurath]

I’d posit that the people on hacker news are often very far away from even a yeoman understanding of social sciences, except in a few profitable niches like attention, personalization and motivation.

[throwaway173738]

Why does it have to be a progressive orthodoxy? Can’t it just be an orthodoxy?

[homefree]

Because that’s the group that’s captured it

[nathan_compton]

This is such a weird thing to simply baldly assert.