Debate on the Validity of Science

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Hi All:

 

I placed " science " in quotes because what is under discussion

here is the philosophical underpinnings of the scientific

community and their process of accepting or rejecting concepts

based on their alignment with the current frame of reference, a

tendency that makes " science " a particularly unstable form of

religious dogmatism that is at odds with truth seeking.

 

I don't think that the " scientific method " of research is at

question, although it is certainly limited in its ability to

prove or disprove anything depending on the current scope of

human ability to measure a particular thing. It's inability to do

so should in no way diminish the truth of concepts it is not

capable of measuring.

 

> (Kuhn) does give the process of paradigm shift an

> authoritarian cast, even comparing scientific groups to the ruling classes of

Orwell's

> " 1984. " Anybody who disagrees with the dominant scientific paradigm, he said,

is

> " read out of the profession. " In fact, Kuhn suggests, it is only when there is

unanimity

> about a paradigm that science comes to believe it is progressing.

 

In other words, IMO, " We will ignore you until you become

unavoidable, at which time we will take possession of your

concepts and claim they were ours. " ;-)

 

I'm becoming rapidly tired of the argument that " science " is the

best thing that we have, so we should embrace it in toto without

question. In many cases the same people who say that will

encourage skepticism about other methods of thought or belief

based on their dissimilarity to " science " . That, my friends, is

one of the earmarks of mind control and cult behavior. If you are

going to question, question *everything*. There hasn't been a

" genius " of any note in human history who followed the flute of

the status quo.

 

You'll probably have to log in to read the article at the NY

Times site; I'm going to try to save it as a text file and load

it to the shared files later today:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/arts/21KUHN.html?todaysheadlines

 

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