"Science says"

Although saying ‘science says’ is not necessarily wrong, it's common for pseudo-intellectuals to try to use that phrase to try to present their position as having absolute consensus on it (often when that's not the case). ‘Science says’ is in some sense one of the signs of the Reddid-populating quasi-intellectual, quite overlapping with the "I fucking love Science" crowd.A common move of trying to present a "science says" when it's just the result of an ideological change like I said. Your appeal to authority is argumentum ad auctoritatem, and your appeal to "consensus," is argumentum ad populum. Now, you will probably not understand these concepts because I understand what kind of person you are. These mean that your appeals weaken your argument, not that authority and consensus has to be wrong. It just means that consensus and official authority in itself is not infallible.  I continuously see people trying to make the lie that "race is not used in science anymore" or "race is a disproven concept" or some variant of this. That person is either lying to you or is misinformed (of course, she wouldn't be lying to you without being misinformed, they wouldn't feel a need to lie except if they misunderstood something). The reality is, as Journal of the National Medical Association (2008) states, ▬» The use of race as a variable in research continues to spark debate about whether it should be used, as well as the implications it has for research on health differences. » Long before this I saw ideologically-driven pseuds online trying to distribute the lie that "there is a full consensus."
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