On Sep 2, 2008, at 10:04 PM, raghu wrote:
Say what? Did this clown really go and conflate creationism along with
miscellaneous other subjects he does not approve of? I know nothing
about homeopathy, but what exactly is this "Hindu version of science"
that he speaks so condescendingly of? (A Google search on the phrase
returns exactly zero results.) Seems like a cheap rhetorical device to
highlight the superiority of the "European version of science"? I am
not sure I can take anything else he writes seriously after that..
Google instead for "Vedic Science" or "Meera Nanda". There is an
entire cottage industry
of academic second-raters whose ticket to credibility and perhaps
tenure is pomo bashing. Meera Nanda steps up to this task when it
comes to Indian pomo! ;-) (which is not to say that there aren't
things worthy of criticism in pomo or "vedic science").
Amartya Sen (unsurprisingly) has offered criticism similar to yours
above, of a Eurocentric view of science and/or rationality.
--ravi
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