• betanumerus@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    Watch them trying to ban Arabic numerals and force everyone to use Roman numbers again.

  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    My brother tried telling me about how all great advancements came from Europe and European descendants.

    I brought up the Islamic Golden Age of Science and he immediately questioned if it was real…

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    Controversial opinion: What RFK jr said here is what every Western person is taught in school. The West has systemically erased any non-European achievement from its literature. Going as far as to rename prominent Muslim scholars such as Ibn Sinna and Ibn Rushd and give them names like Avicenna or Averroes.

    This is a way to indoctrinate studente of science by giving them the idea that all of modern science has originated from the West since all they see is Western names.

    What RFK jr says here is not a failure of his own education. It is what he has been indoctrinated with by the Western education system.

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      53 minutes ago

      Controversial opinions are supposed to be opinions, not claims of fact. And what you said isn’t true. RFK’s idiotic opinions don’t represent the country as a whole

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        The controversial part of my claim is that he does represent the country as a whole. This is what the education system teaches people in the West.

        When you look up anything about scientific achievements on the internet it will all be about 1500s to 1700s Europe, completely disregarding the 900s to 1200s Islamic golden age in Iraq, where Europe kick started most of its scientific knowledge from.

        It is an insidious type of censorship where people believe they are being selectively informed when seeking information on science but are only told about Western achievements. Thus they start thinking what RFK said because that is their logical conclusion.

        Try looking up when science kicked off or about the biggest scientific achievements and it will talk about either ancient Greece in 500bc or about the 1500s and later unless you specifically start looking for it.

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    3 hours ago

    This explains his misunderstanding of Science: Mathematics is a lot harder if you don’t use the number 0.

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    Why is anyone surprised when a stupid person says something stupid? If he said, “Quantified destruction is when a blood vessel is blocked, cells begin to die at an exponential, predictable rate. For example, during an acute ischemic stroke, the brain loses approximately 1.9 million neurons every minute while therapy is delayed,” that would be damned incredible.

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    4 hours ago

    Hey Bobert, you mean your Saudi friends right? They haven’t contributed shit to the sciences eventhough the family is worth trillions of dollars.

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        They literally saved Greek science and mathematics from extinction during the dark ages. Sure, Arabic mathematics had its mini dark age when they decided everything should be human words only to make it easier to understand for humans, then they realized that wasn’t the way to go.

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    10 hours ago

    What science or literature has Brainworms produced?

    All I see this asshat doing is trying to sabotage proven medicine we already have, set American research back decades, and generally carry on with the conservative project of trying to roll back the Enlightenment as whole.

    He can go fuck himself. It’s fine if he’s not producing science himself, but at the very least, he should get the fuck out of the way of those that can. Certainly, he should shut the fuck up about what others produce when he beclowns himself on the regular when he talks about science.