Mike,
The sci. method can be, and is, and has been, polluted by prejudice, and by
hardening of expedient method into Doctrinal method. This always happens in
Religion, if the mystical- or practice-wing of the religion does not survive,
or becomes isolated or "underground" and secret. For example, I think that
Christian Contemplative practitioners are a little (lot) closer to their
fundamental Humanity (Buddha Nature, or Christ-Nature) than doctrinaire
Christians of any professed stripe.
No, I don't stress that scientists' practice is polluted by politics, and of
course it is. But more fundamentally, it is polluted and disabled by Doctrine,
and hard-rock Materialism, where there should be none. It's just that
scientists don't happen to know better than other people how not to be trapped
by materialistic thought and behavior. This happens not so that scientists can
get along with politicians or funders, but because scientists are human, and
practice tends to harden and become materialistic, ...if it is just
...Mechanical.
I'll stop; this is making me sad.
--Joe
> "mike" <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> That sounds like quite a disturbing state of affairs if scientists are so
> bogged down in dogma and methods because they could be influenced into ways
> of thinking that don't come from the scientific method itself I.e, from
> politics, prejudices, beliefs etc. Could it be said that the scientific
> method is the zazen of science (in keeping the bastards honest)?
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