"Who is to be the arbiter of what is true and what is “misinformation”?
The way to uphold the integrity of science is with a free exchange of ideas,
not an app or document that decides which publication or which interpretation
of the data is real science and which is misinformation."
The problem with this approach is that not all participants are acting in good
faith.
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All Things Serve the Beam
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David J. Schuller
modern man in a post-modern world
MacCHESS, Cornell University
[email protected]
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From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> on behalf of Daniel M.
Himmel, Ph. D. <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 10:40 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Combating disinformation in science and other areas
Dear all,
That’s a very nice idea to have an app to combat misinformation that can
undermine the integrity of science and foster mistrust of scientific inquiry.
But to launch such an app raises the obvious question:
Who is to be the arbiter of what is true and what is “misinformation”?
The way to uphold the integrity of science is with a free exchange of ideas,
not an app or document that decides which publication or which interpretation
of the data is real science and which is misinformation.
Thanks go to Bryan Lepore for pointing out that the work of Herbert Marcuse (a
strong advocate of a brand of Marxism once popular in Germany) led to much
violence in the USA. Violent revolutions are how a great deal of science has
been lost during the last several thousand years of human history, which is why
we’re first determining atomic and near-atomic resolution structures in the
20th and 21st centuries, not eons ago.
So, my humble request: Can we stick to crystallography and allied fields of
structure determination on this e-mail list, and not digress into divisive
politics, please?
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel
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Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Principal, Himmel Sci Med Com, LLC
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 7:52 AM Bryan Lepore
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The idea of "Global Sustainability" can be found in the documents for the noted
projects, so the United Nations "Sustainable Development Goals" appear to be
worth reviewing as background - even though it appears the UN or UNESCO (below)
is irrelevant to them :
“Transformation is the red thread running through all the Sustainable
Development Goals, the United Nations’ agenda for responding to global
challenges facing humanity and the planet. Setting our world on a more
sustainable course requires radical shifts in current development paradigms
that are exacerbating inequalities and imperilling [sic] our common future.
This transition is dependent on new knowledge, research and competences that
only higher education institutions are in a position to provide, rooted in
their historic role of service to society.”
[...]
“In 1964, inspiring the 1968-student revolt a couple of years later, Herbert
Marcuse wrote a key text against “one dimensional man”, urging universities and
campuses around the world to become places that resisted reductionism. ”
Source:
Parr, et. al.
“Knowledge-driven actions: transforming higher education for global
sustainability”
2022
UNESCO
https://doi.org/10.54675/YBTV1653
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