If you don't believe in (recognize) white privilege why the fuck are you on a Democratic Forum?

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83. The colloquial term "fact" is often misused in place of "theory."

As much as I'm a proponent of ACC, it is not factual. It is theoretical, based on an evolved interpretation of facts. Although it's a very good theory, to claim a theory to be a fact is to dismiss oneself from the scientific process and enter the realm of received truth.

Science is never settled. It advances, discarding old paradigms and explanations in favor of newer, more accurate ones.

It can only advance when someone questions it, picks apart its weaknesses, and advances a better explanation. Usually, there are some in the old school who cling to the old thinking, and defend it as all bitter clingers do. Consider the unseemly end years of the great Lord Kelvin's career, when he excoriated Darwin with derision and venom. A scientist no more...sad.

Think about the displacement of Newtonian physics by relativity a hundred years ago. Real scientists took an open-minded, if strongly skeptical, view of relativity until experimental tests that tried to disprove it failed. A real scientist TESTS HER OWN THEORY to try to *disprove* it, and helps others do the same. Only if these tests fail can theoretical confidence advance.

And now, we see that relativity itself is in the process of being superseded....

That's science.