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2002-10-10 Thread Carl Remick
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joanna writes: A critique of the development of science under capitalism would take much more than an email. Suffice it to say that what we refer to as SCIENCE today is a specific historical form suffering from specific historical deformations. I leave it

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2002-10-10 Thread joanna bujes
At 05:12 PM 10/10/2002 +, you wrote: Again, I believe it's the nature of science itself -- not just the corruptive effects of capitalism -- that so often causes technology to have a destructive, dehumanizing impact on society. The ever increasing specialization of scientific knowledge

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2002-10-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Come on, cool it everybody. On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:46:03PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: - Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I did: I said that it is not a legitimate question, and therefore has no answer, simple or complicated. When it comes up as a