Today’s episode critiques how the phrase “no evidence” is weaponised within institutional systems to silence marginalised perspectives and maintain the status quo. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that scientific or academic absence is rarely a neutral discovery, but rather a result of deliberate choices regarding what receives funding and which metrics are valued. By prioritising specific hierarchies of knowledge, these systems effectively manufacture a lack of data to dismiss lived experiences as mere anecdote. Ultimately, Dr. Hoerricks suggests that what is labeled as rigorous truth is often just the byproduct of organised omission. This process serves to protect existing structures by ignoring realities that the current methodologies are not designed to see.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/priced-out-of-personhood-no-evidence
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