If Western institutions are making assumptions that are incorrect or racist, or are ideologically driven, or are unaware of efficacious treatments, the correct answer is not an "alternate way of knowing," the current assumption was just wrong.
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I also think the underlying premise is flawed. Is this theory seriously suggesting that some people have access to *a different kind of epistemology*? If not, it's still human senses and a human brain. If not...how?
sep 5, 2025, 5:32 am • 10 1 • view
I view it as a big-words version of "Stop picking on me!" They know they don't have facts, evidence, logic, or even the better kind of anecdotal evidence on their side, so they try to pull a "god of the gaps" and retreat into the philosophical fastness of "You just don't understand!"
sep 5, 2025, 5:35 am • 5 0 • view
Incidentally, this is the EXACT reason I am not longer Catholic. Papal infallibility is also a special, secret *kind of epistemology* that some people get and not others.
sep 5, 2025, 5:36 am • 12 1 • view
The specialness of the pope would seem more plausible had the papacy a more illustrious history. Really hard to imagine a Borgia had a special divine relationship.
sep 5, 2025, 6:26 am • 1 0 • view
Counterpoint: the Italian Renaissance kicked ass lmao
sep 5, 2025, 7:27 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I, too, follow epistemological monism: There's only one way of knowing, what's true on Wednesday is true on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, and the only thing to do with a god is to put them in an MRI and see how they do the voodoo they do so well.
sep 5, 2025, 5:38 am • 5 0 • view
Smugness is the last refuge of the person with no arguments.
sep 5, 2025, 5:35 am • 1 0 • view
Which, well, happens a lot because Western professional medical establishments have biases and ideologies like anyone else.
sep 4, 2025, 5:30 pm • 14 1 • view