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I can't resist...
Did scientific method grow on a tree, or did people invent it?
Did people invent scientific method simultaneously everywhere, or was it invented and practiced at specific places?
:D
The real fallacy in my opinion is having a connotation that if something is constructed and promoted within a culture, that makes it wrong. For example, consider the Pythagorean theorem... knowing that Pythagoras was a rich white cis male, shouldn't we remove it from the curriculum? And perhaps replace it with something more enlightened, such as: "all sides of a triangle are equal, even if their lengths may be different".
In the same sense, science, even rationality itself, are cultural constructs. Maybe even human speech is a cultural construct, but luckily that happened sufficiently long ago so now all cultures have it. Okay, I am not sure about the last example. But I am sure that calling things "cultural constructs" is a cultural construct itself.
That's already been done
“A topologist is someone who can't tell the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground.”
Are those two things really homeomorphic? A topologist's arse has a hole running all the way through it, but a pit in the ground's only open at one end. You might say: go far enough into a bottom and eventually you reach a hole; go far enough into a hole and eventually you reach a bottom.
(Sorry. I'll go to bed now.)