Neanderthal dental DNA shows us the true paleo diet (we've got it a bit wrong)

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One of the things that interests me in the sociology of science

Subjecting the hard sciences to examination by the social sciences? Ooooh, that’d be a thread if I ever saw one…

It’s a varied field; there’s plenty of rigorous and useful examination of the influence of social factors on science and vice-versa, but there’s also a mountain of extreme PoMo bullshit (Barnes & Bloor, Latour, etc.).

It’s touched on in this thread:

Postmodernism and the History of Science

There have been a few threads lately in which the subject of postmodernism has come up, usually in the context of people comparing it to the “post-truth” tactics of the modern American right. We also have a few folks here who push back on that; sometimes by denying the analogy altogether, sometimes by denying a causative link between the phenomena. Personally, I’m not rabidly opposed to postmodern academia; I think that it’s an approach that can provide useful insights in certain areas. Howeve…