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In September of 2022, I listened to DarkHorse podcast host Bret Weinstein’s interview of Steve Patterson, on the subject ‘Are We Living in a Dark Age?‘

Having written a three-part series in 2021 titled ‘The Death of Science?’ (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), in which I argued that “science is under attack in the 21st century” and that the survival of the scientific method as a system of reliable knowledge production was far from certain, I was struck by Patterson’s thesis. Patterson argued that science was not dying, but was in fact already dead, and that its demise occurred in the twentieth century. As a consequence, according to Patterson, “we’ve been living in a dark age since at least the early 20^th century.”

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Academia and the new dark age: Part 1 – by Robyn Chuter (substack.com)