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To: GodGunsGuts
The ability to confer the mantle of scientific respectability, if not truth, upon a view creates great power in and over our society right down to the grassroots prols.

Here on FR when discussions turn to religion and philosophy vs. the current pronouncements of scientific theory, to say, “That's not scientific” or some such is a pejorative that the utterers appear to think renders all dissent futile.

Here that sort of thing provides fuel for debate but when the person saying it can put a choke hold on one’s career by restricting research facilities and therefore the mother's milk of publication, peer review, then it's quite a different story.

7 posted on 01/23/2009 10:13:35 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

The inquisition lives on. What will be next, house arrest? Too bad so many people assume white labcoats confer objectivity. Indeed, it would seem the field of science is one of the last bastions still capable of fooling the public into believing they are immune to human frailty. But alas, I suspect the days of being able to rely on naive public trust are rapidly coming to a close.


10 posted on 01/23/2009 10:24:35 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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