Anthropologists are not scientists.
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Since the suffix "ology" means "the study of," you'll find that most people in professions ending with ology are in fact scientists. Unless the ology is Scientology, counterintuitive as that may sound.
No, perhaps not. Social science is squishy that way. But they do make an effort to confirm the validity of their data and see that others check their work, the same way scientists do. That's still more than a fundamentalist ever does.
It looks like you're trying to form a coherent thought!
Did you mean...
"Anthropologists are not scientologists."?
"Arthropods are not scientists."?
"Arthropods are not scientists."?
"Appendages are not scientists."?
an·thro·pol·o·gy
[an-thruh-pol-uh-jee] noun
1. the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
PWNED.
Meh. This isn't all that fundie. I heard this kind of thing all the time in school while I was getting a math degree. There was a lot of animosity towards people that were getting BAs in the "soft sciences," but thought they were scientists (eg, anthropology, psychology, and sociology students always got the most scorn).
Though I have a feeling that in context this comment was a lot more fundie.
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Don't tell them that, we like to keep them in the dark.
Actually my history teacher said something like this, but he was joking. Maybe Brennin was in my class and took the guy seriously?
This is an interesting mistake, because it requires that someone know less not to make a poor assumption. My guess would be that because the predictive capacities (and by extension, the experimentation of) the discipline are pretty limited, the poster believes they might better be called "researchers" or "scholars" than "scientists" because they don't apply the "scientific method" to whatever it is that the poster believes they do.
As an anthropology student I have to ask whats so wrong about this? No, we are not scientist, we are the philosopher artist of the canvas of human reality. Sometimes we are also humorists, but scientists we are not.
And that statement, Brennin, can start a bloody riot in a faculty lounge in any university. Anthropologists usually carry very heavy and very large books and they know how to use them. They can decimate an entire biology department in 20 seconds flat.
Well, they aren't hard scientists but instead social scientists. They don't do the same things as hard scientists-concrete experiments and such...
But they are still scientists.
So according to Brennin, anthropologists aren't scientists. According to people in these comments, anthropologists don't actually collect hard data. So I'm wondering what the fuck I did all last semester measuring and comparing primate reproductive cycles and hormone levels. If it wasn't science and data, I'm at a loss here...
We don't collect hard data nor do we use the scientific method? Ye gods, some of the posters here are as bad as this guy. In the US at least, archaeologists are considered anthropologists, and we certainly collect hard data. Bags and bags of it. We also use the scientific method. Our "perform experiment" section is a lot messier than the so-called "hard" sciences, but it's by far the most famous aspect of archaeology- the dig. Our retests usually can't be done on the same site, but the artifacts and data collected can be reanalyzed, and you can usually find another site involving the same cultural group to dig in.
I can't speak for the Margaret Mead types, because I've never done that sort of work, but I imagine it's much the same for them. Their experiments may look different from banging little balls together over and over, but that doesn't make it any less scientific. It's actually a hell of a lot harder than the banging together of little balls, because people? Are damned complicated. I don't know why there's this weird hierarchy, with physics as the most pure. It must be because physics is easy, in the sense that inanimate objects generally behave more simply than animate ones.
"This is the same fat stupid fukwit moron who goes on about how the word 'arsenokoites' means exactly: 'homosexual offender' even though it literally translates: 'man to bed with' because he is a catholic asshole with advanced degrees in knowing about teh Gheys. Cunt lick."
I am not a Roman Catholic, dipshit, and arsenokoites literally denotes a men-bedder/a man who has sex with other men. You are as inept in Greek as you are in everything else (except sodomy).
"an·thro·pol·o·gy
[an-thruh-pol-uh-jee] noun
1. the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
PWNED."
Yeah, just like political "science" is the "science" of government. You are not quite as stupid as the guy who claimed "bachelors of science" in anthropology prove anthropology is a science but you are in a good position for runner up!
"Good little bushie. The "lowest common denominator" was calculated to include the likes of you...and you just managed to lower it further.
Bunghole."
Bitch please. I would have to take a chisel and hammer to my head to even come close to descending to your intellectual level.
The only thing worse than fucking morons are pretentious fucking morons like fstdt groupies.
Julian, I already know you are a sub-moronic piece of shit. There is no need to beat a dead horse. (Although, perhaps you are having sex with it. I can't tell from this distance and I don't want to know for sure!)
Gosh, your flights of fancy really reveal so much about your tiny little mind don't they!
I'd suggest you get help, but I fear you'd only get prescribed anti-masturbation gloves
See.
Now you'll need to get your mother to tie them on real tight so you can't undo them with your teeth.
The best thing of all is you wont be able to type either, so you can stop all your needless frothing.
So much try.
So much fail!
Dude, just because a few universities offer a science degree with some half-assed associations with some aspects of architecture, which upon graduation means you're a scientist, not an architect, or can be used as a precurser to an actual architecture degree; doesn't mean squat here apart from highlighting the fact that you're a desperate feeble little weasel grasping at straws and too stupid to realise WTF you're talking about!
Nice try with the fallacious attempt to discredit by association though.
Add it to your squalid, stinking, stupid, festering landfill of fail!
Mom.
Gloves.
Seriously!
Julian, it is not your fault that you are saddled with a mediocre intellect but you should not revel in it. That MIT grants bachelor of science degrees in anthropology means absolutely nothing, your inability to apprehend that fact notwithstanding.
Sorry fuckwit, but you lose.
Anthropology is a combination of both the social sciences and natural sciences, all of which is irrefutably science - except in your pea brain.
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