On 6 Jul 2009 at 7:17, Allen Esterson wrote: > I think it is pernicious that an influential educational organisation is > promoting, under the heading of feminist science studies, the view that > fundamental laws of physics are a function of what the above article > describes as "social values such as race, ethnicity [and] gender".
"Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I'll show you a hypocrite" -Richard Dawkins, _River Out of Eden_, 1996 He goes on: "Airplanes are built according to scientific principles and they work. They stay aloft and they get you to a chosen destination. Airplanes built to tribal or mythological specifications such as the dummy planes of the Cargo cults in jungle clearings or the bees-waxed wings of Icarus don't." Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
