Paul Smith wrote, in part:
> Rick's comments echo my thoughts exactly. In addition, to the extent
> that scholarly research might not help society as much as it could, isn't it
> reasonable to think that may be because of active resistance from people who
> denigrate scientific methods (for example, as "mere Eurocentric
> constructions") without understanding them? Certainly our scholarly
> knowledge FAR outpaces its application to public service, and that baseless
> resistance must bear quite a bit of the blame.
Example: Go read Brian Greene's "The elegant universe," if you want to see
cutting edge science (this is superstring et al. theory in physics) far
outpaces application. It may be generations in the future before this stuff
makes sense in any applied fashion...and this in a field that has been a
"science" for centuries longer than psychology!
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"There is the danger that everyone waits
idly for others to act in his stead."
Albert Einstein
"Majorities simply follow minorities.
Gandhi
