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Trying to sow confusion amongst sources of truth. It fails again and again.
Usually quantum physics serves as a crank magnet for all kinds of generally leftist kookery, but Jan seems to want to reject it outright for similar reasons that you talk about above with irrational numbers.
I know this isn’t your point, but the non-political way to express a similar rejection of quantum theory was literally just Einstein saying “god does not play dice”, which he famously retracted.
Indeed, I think a lot of people probably have a similar reaction.
In Jan’s case it seems his view is that it opens the door to things like “moral relativism” and so the spectre of “Cultural Marxism” and the related accusations of this being some sort of plot soon follow…
I found it interesting since evolution deniers do similar things when it comes to Bio 101 - they think that Darwin is making the world more “secular”, as they define that term. Meaning, they think that scientific facts influence culture in some nefarious way. They may be right that facts will influence culture in certain ways, but they arrive at the conclusion that it’s been orchestrated by some big “They” to force some cultural outcome, and assume it also must be false.
I know this isn’t your point, but the non-political way to express a similar rejection of quantum theory was literally just Einstein saying “god does not play dice”, which he famously retracted.
Indeed, I think a lot of people probably have a similar reaction.
In Jan’s case it seems his view is that it opens the door to things like “moral relativism” and so the spectre of “Cultural Marxism” and the related accusations of this being some sort of plot soon follow…
I found it interesting since evolution deniers do similar things when it comes to Bio 101 - they think that Darwin is making the world more “secular”, as they define that term. Meaning, they think that scientific facts influence culture in some nefarious way. They may be right that facts will influence culture in certain ways, but they arrive at the conclusion that it’s been orchestrated by some big “They” to force some cultural outcome, and assume it also must be false.