Die Kinder glauben vielleicht, die Kuh wäre lila, aber die Erwachsenen glauben, die Kuh wäre glücklich.

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@thejessiekirk

If you genuinely think that the solution to bias in science is to just do science better then you really need to read some critical theory, maybe critical race theory or something (the concepts translate to lots of domains but i think this is the most written about)

And why did you refer to it as "animal research" rather than "non-human animal research"

Yes I am comparing it to racist IQ test because the concept of measurable intelligence was invented by racists and the concept still carries the same assumptions implicitly even if the explicit intentions were written out. And because the spore remains it translates quite nicely onto speciesism and human supremacy as I have outlined above

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #CriticalTheory

@thejessiekirk Science is not a vacuum it exists under the social system of human supremacy and is absolutely tainted by it regardless of professed ideals of objectivity - the scientific method is *resistant* to bias not imprevious to it - and human supremacy is probably the single most deeply held and longstanding bias there is

See critical theory thinking on bias in science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

#HumanSupremacy

@thejessiekirk I'm not dismissing that, I'm saying that common definitions of intelligence are human supremacist in nature "more like human = more intelligent" and that if your work rests on this foundation then you are furthering human supremacy

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@thejessiekirk It is possible to study the behaviour of other animals scientifically - but the idea that it is based on an innate intelligence is speciesist and human supremacist. Intelligence is usually defined in ways that put humans on top, just like how IQ tests were usually and still sometimes are defined in ways that put white people on top.

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy

@thejessiekirk Call it behavioral science then. Thats what we call it when we do it to humans. The idea that a species behaviour and culture should rest solely on their innate intelligence is a human supremacist idea. When we study human behaviour we consider all sorts of factors not just "intelligence" because for one we can't even define intelligence there are multiple competing theories.

#HumanSupremacy

@thejessiekirk Intelligence testing in non-humans is just racist pseudoscience repackaged as speciesist pseudoscience - they usually have extremely human supremacist and speciesist assumptions and methodology

Here is an example about how "intelligence" in other species is underestimated: the cow who was recently observed to use a brush as a multi-tool. They are a pet cow, which means they have the spare time and freedom to access and play with a brush to learn how to use it, but ask the average person about what science says about cows and they will say "they can't use tools they lack the intelligence thats what makes humans special"

And even when it is determined that a certain species is "intelligent" it just reinforces speciesism by creating a new classification of "intelligent" and "unintelligent" animals with different moral characteristics. Crows and elephants are considered intelligent because they have culture, memory and tool use but at what point in history have we allowed farmed animals the space and freedom to observe these behaviours from them?

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All animals (at least all those that fall under the colloquial definition) are people because they all have personality memory preferences agency emotions etc

#Speciesism #HumanSupremacy