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To: PJ-Comix
"Okay, great. If I'm going to be (branded), everybody's going to be."

Good for him! This is exactly the kind of sneakiness we have to root out and expose. In one of my grad school courses, we had to read some cultural anthropologists bullsh** drivel about how science is merely another worldview, a Western construct. The article read, "whereas the scientist claims to explain the world as it 'really' is, the anthropologist studies the various ways in which..." and I made sure to point out to the prof the bias of this style. The scientist "claims" but the anthropologist "studies." And of course, the scare quotes around "really." (After all, there IS no objective reality, see? Although when you use that against them to say that their collectivist world-view is, then, no better than a capitalist one, they get very prune-faced.)

5 posted on 12/26/2001 5:25:42 AM PST by Anamensis
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To: Anamensis
That goes a long way towards explaining why my cousin got her degree in anthropology at UC Berkeley and promptly went to work at a pet store. As we say in the engineering field, "Reality wins out in the end".
6 posted on 12/26/2001 5:39:22 AM PST by randog
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To: Anamensis

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7 posted on 12/26/2001 5:40:20 AM PST by bert
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To: Anamensis
In one of my grad school courses, we had to read some cultural anthropologists bullsh** drivel about how science is merely another worldview, a Western construct.

Actually, this is a true statement.

Except that the scientific worldview produces actual results (unlike most non-scientifically based worldviews) and can therefore be safely assumed to provide the best available explanation of reality.

It's nice that someone recognizes that science is a Western construct. For a while there I was thinking it was invented in Darkest Africa. :)

22 posted on 12/26/2001 6:37:10 AM PST by Restorer
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