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Author: mimusmimus Date: Aug 18, 2008 10:12
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:38:24 -0500, PV wrote:
> Thomas Lindgren <***********@*****.***> writes:
>
>> On the other hand, Big Science isn't just a conspiracy theory but a
>> social phenomenon quite ripe for a kicking.
>
> Yes, what with them being so insufferably *right* all the time. Heavens
> forbid that science would demand that you can prove your claims. *
I'm not sure what exactly "Big Science" is, but there's an awful lot of
immature sciences floating around out there, viz. neurology, cosmology and
nuclear physics, with plenty of unproven hypotheses and hypothetical
models washing around, not to mention some fairly plain frauds, in all
three (naming no names, since I simply don't feel particularly pugnacious
at the moment, and have fought some of those fights on Usenet before,
several more than once), each with their faithful.
And history, human and natural (not that I don't consider humans natural),
including biography, must be pretty much permanently immature, since
irreparable lacks of knowledge simply make it a matter of more and more
refined approximation forever.
--
This is part of the eternal wonder of the universe
as man forages out to discover in the womb of time
the nascence of his individuality in the motherhood of possibility.
< Malzberg
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