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Not to mention scientifically dubious tests of "unconscious bias" used against you as evidence in kangaroo courts -- enshrined into law. That's something that might be in Room 101 in the world of Orwell's1984.

Also, enshrining into law of scientifically false statements. (Anyone remember the bit about Indiana doing that with pi == 3?)

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The pi thing never actually happened. The bill was proposed but did not pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

All those who jumped on that bandwagon found they couldn't get it rolling, because the wheels looked like hexagons in order to make d = 2πr work out.

There are five lights!

https://youtu.be/o_eSwq1ewsU

Well pi does equal 3 if you round it down.

...and a square looks like a circle if you round it down as well. Doing so does make it lose its essence though, just like rounding down pi does. It is not for nothing after all that the ancients tried all sorts of tricks to find the actual numerical value of the ratio between a circle's radius and its circumference.

While this is true, they were still able to build pretty significant things without such accuracy. Sure, if you keep rounding you can lose essence but rounding pi to 3 doesn't lose enough of the essence for practical usefulness. 3 works fine rough circles..it might not work fine for building a rocket or a some finer piece of machinery but for may things it works fine.

Besides, although I said what I did to make a valid point, I mostly said it to be humorous. Sorry I did not put in the humor tags.

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