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I still don’t really know what “woke” means.

I see Piers Morgan and Spiked magazine get all flustered, triggered and angry about ‘wokeness’.

It seems to be the ‘right’ getting all leftie about lefties - or something equally important. Anyone?
Is it just a trendy new replacement for “PC”? I’ve not heard that term in a while. Or is there a difference between being ‘woke’ and being ‘PC’?
Actually, Piers seems to have provided an answer a few hours back (in response to @mrjamesob):

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Mike Galsworthy
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No. I’m a scientist.

The scientific method is about proof or disproof of hypotheses. But only in maths do you have irrefutable proof. In the world of experimentation, we use a significance threshold. Usually at 5%.

How is that threshold determined? Scientific consensus. /Thread
To repeat in clearer terms:

The scientific method itself is formed by scientific consensus...

...on what works to strip away truth from false understandings.

We agreed together over time what statistical tools to use and tested their robustness over myriad examples.
There are still huge problems in science... with the publishing of false positive, non-publishing of true negatives (file-drawer effect) & those instances occurring within papers.

But the notion of a discrete “method” entirely divorced from consensus of practitioners- is false.
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Mike Galsworthy
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Now hold on a sec. This Sun article praises Finnish policy of a 4-day week & notes that similar moves elsewhere have been shown to increase productivity.

Search “4-day week Sun” & you’ll see several Sun articles praising it - and Sun articles ridiculing Labour for advocating it.
I’d also like to point out that:

1) Productivity is the UK’s achilles heel. We need to employ all measures that can boost that.

2) In the NHS, staff are over-burdened, exhausted and demoralised. Such a measure could help retention, productivity & patient safety.
As someone pointed out in replies below... the Sun’s keen praise for this is made even more ironic by it being fake news, apparently:

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Mike Galsworthy
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Can we zoom in on that phrase:

“When we work together”?

And then consider the “working together” of Europe that you have undermined since 2016.

Brexit sets back our capacity to work together on protecting the planet. You even *want* to disalign from environmental standards.
Note to some people (given comments):

I did not say “removes” our capacity - we can of course still work with EU27 - I said “sets back” because: 1) Brexit has an opportunity cost of time, energy & finances 2) undermining environmental protections is the wrong direction.
Furthermore, it’s sending all the wrong signals that we’d do a trade deal with US when they say UK/global climate targets cannot be mentioned in such a deal (see article)

+ we’d contemplate deals with Aus/NZ to increase shipping cargo 1/2 way round world.
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Since you brought it up...

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