Hello all, Gary Kern wrote: > More and more I am noticing that scientists are not scientific, prone to > prejudice and cliche-ridden. The alien is only one example of their > failure to remain impartial, critically minded and dedicated to the > scientific method. The dinosaur is another. >
I agree entirely. I understand that there is currently a debate going on about Darwin based not on the scientific merits of his theories, but based on his theories being possibly racist, and therefore contrary to prevailing agendas. In _Aladdin's Problem_, there is a section where Baroh is describing academia and says some thing like "History is politicised and the sciences encoded." (I am paraphrasing from memory, please forgive innaccuracies) I think that science is also politicised these days. GERD
