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This is a pretty confused piece of writing and totally falls apart on myth 4:

> Only the opinion of the experts in a given field has any bearing on any question in this field.

This has nothing to do with science and is really a point about the division of labor/economics.

The rejection of experts has been a hallmark of scientific and mathematical thinking since ancient times, most famously in Socrates. But the thread continues throughout all of human history.

I like Grothendieck's work a lot, and I know he had unconventional politics. But this reads like one of the many Marx-influenced attempts from that period to discredit the idea of truth.




> This has nothing to do with science and is really a point about the division of labor/economics.

This is not a critic of the idea science, ie some kind of pursuit of knowledge using any reasonable means. It is a critic of the modern institution that academic science currently is. As such, yes, some critics are in fact more generally applicable than just for science (as you say, division of labor). But these are particularly visible in science and have specific consequences in this context.


It falls apart since the beginning: the science definition given does not match the real world process of building scientific knowledge.




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