raghu wrote: > > Actually far from repudiating science, the Bush years provide an > excellent example of Tyranny of Science at work.
It is an example, a very common example as it happens (see my reference to ads beginning "Science tells us") of hijacking the (deserved) high reputation of reputable science for anti-scientific purposes. And incidentally, the fact that you would, in this thread, invoke the tyranny of Science (note _Science_ not _science_) illustrates that I and others have _not_ misconstrued ravi's original post as raising the question of science as such. To return to Lou's original post. Assuming the accuracy of chargaes against Diamond made there, a legitimate digression was possible into a discussion of either the misuses of science or of one parrticular tendency (reductionism) within _some_ scientific currents or in the use of science by non-scientists. But ravi chose to make the ridiculous claim (ridiculous even if correct, since non-demmonstrable except by telepathy) that Diamon's purpose was cementing his status among intellectuals: NOTE - the reference was not to some (specifiable) sub-group of intellectuals but to intellectuals as such. From such a ridiculous beginning, the features Michael Perelman complains of in the thread were inevitable. And you have added to the confusion by collapsing pseduo-science into science as such. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
