On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 8, 2009, at 11:02 PM, raghu wrote: >> I don't disagree. It is just that it is not that easy to distinguish >> stupid science from the sensible kind. > > I dunno, there is this thing called the scientific method, involving > hypothesis testing and reproducibility and all that. It can't answer all > questions, but it sure can answer a lot of them.
I guess to some extent, this is a matter of perception. I think there is a *lot* these criteria can't answer. For instance, what do these ideas say about the scientific status of economics - neoclassical and Marxist? Philosophers have been at it for centuries without consensus. -raghu. -- "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
