• FlapJackFlapper@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    The fact that capitalism taints everything it touches is not a criticism of the things it touches.

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      Yet, it’s not as simple as “scientists are under capitalists’ interests”, but “the ideologies within capitalism permeate the way we do science”. A common example is how we measure functionality (and therefore pathology itself) in medicine.