Is Science Infallible? Debunking Science As Savior
Where: Center for Inquiry, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
When: September 26th @ 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Contact: [email protected]
Although scientific inquiry trumps religious and astrological doctrine as a method used to understand the mysteries of the universe and the human condition, it is not without its own flaws.
Our panel will explore, from a non-European perspective, how science, in some cases, has gotten it wrong, the ramifications that followed, and the challenges this presents in promoting skepticism and secularism in the black community.
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skeptifem
September 3, 2012 at 11:28 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
awesome!
Winterwind
September 5, 2012 at 8:36 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I have low-set ears which give me criminal tendecies. I also have an Australoid Dravidian face, prognathous with heavy brow ridges and wide nasal bridge, which renders me inferior in intelligence and culture. Somehow I manage to muddle along, but it’s a struggle competing with superior individuals of the pure Nordic Aryan germ-plasm!
blackskeptics
September 7, 2012 at 12:35 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Don’t forget suspicious “phrenological” lumps and bumps in the occipital area
im
September 7, 2012 at 12:33 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Of course, the reverse has occasionally existed, though with less power and IIRC in countries which were almost entirely inhabited by the dark-skinned, what with the whole melanism thing.
Is this focused on specific failures of science where people let racial predjudice lead them to incorrect ontology, or is it about epistomology and flaws in the practice?
blackskeptics
September 11, 2012 at 2:08 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Both
Strider
September 10, 2012 at 7:36 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I hope you’ll record this panel discussion when it occurs and post it on the blog. I’m intrigued.
NoApologetics
September 11, 2012 at 7:59 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
will Sikivu Hutchinson be there?
F
September 14, 2012 at 7:26 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Echoing Strider, yes, I’d love to take in some sort of recording or transcript – even an abstract of the discussion.