and what are these competing extremes? please be specific marsha --- On Mon, 29/12/08, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
From: MarshaV <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MD] global warming scam? To: [email protected] Received: Monday, 29 December, 2008, 1:57 AM At 09:32 AM 12/28/2008, Gav wrote: > i thought i was being specific....you know by mentioning the world's > scientists warning to humanity from 91 i think...the first earth summit...rio > i think. anyway maybe i should get more specific...i'll try....hey i have a > science degree (first class actually folks) and i think science is an > honourable enterprise...very honourable. der. yes like nearly all endeavours > it is now tainted with the corrupting claw off 'the market'; but its > intellectual raison d'etre is still apparent, as opposed to being a blind > slave to the blatantly exploitative logic of the market. > > science works. it is pragmatically valuable...to an unprecedented level. it > is a very high value method of inquiry whose only real fault is essentially > one of association...ie it's marriage with an inadequate metaphysical > foundation. > > if you think the moq is about diminishing the value of science i think you > are headed in exactly the wrong direction. Greetings Gav, There are questions in this post. Are they aimed at someone specifically, or general questions? Is science either to be honored or diminished? That's the choice. One or zero? My initial point was not whether or not science deserves honors, but how obstacles are created when competing extremes tangle. Marsha . . Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars......... . . Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
