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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: RE:  Weird Science (response)
Message-ID: <757@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 16:52:06 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 16:52:06 1985
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In article <1774@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>
>> I said horrors committed IN THE NAME OF science can occur only
>> when just such a view of science as yours is in operation.  You
>> see, I don't think science creates horrors any more than you
>> do--I think that well-meaning people who bring their assumptions
>> and expectations with them to the laboratory can easily claim
>> outrageous things in the name of science UNLESS they make it a
>> point to admit and recognize that any work they do is colored by
>> their subjectivity.
>
>Then that's not science.  So what are you arguing about?

	Hmm, then there is no such thing as science. I heve never yet
met a scientist, no matter how great, who did *not* bring personnal
preconceptions and prjudices into the lab. I do it, so do all the
scientist I met, and learned to respect, at school. That is why I
think claiming total objectivity for science is a sham. It attempts to
reach that goal, but human responses prevent its ever being achieved.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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