sdv wrote:
[snip]
> I'd like to construct a small list of things which scientists have lied about and
> helped bring about - including - the turning of cattle into cannibals (cows
> normally eat grass when left to there own devices), they lied to protect there
> jobs, power bases, reputations, the discourses of science. They lied about
> thalidomide, global warming, the effects of radiation, the testing of nuclear
> weapons (on humans and nature in the 1950s), the safety of windscalle. They are
> lying about the safety of GM foods. Mostly all we can do is listen to the
> scientists voices and remember that for science truth does not and cannot exist.
[snip]
Yes, now let us deconstruct famous men (and women -- like
Madam Curie, who apparently knew X-rays caused cancer but
hid this because she was afraid it would interfere with the
future of her "work"...)!
But there are exceptions. Please click your mouse
here, for one example:
http://onlineethics.org/
To my way of thinking, the problem is not with
science, but that we are not yet scientific enough:
As Edmund Husserl observed, the Galilean exact mathematical
sciences of nature were mankind's *first* infinite task,
but they only bring "the light of the mind which is the
light of the world" to bear on one small region of the human
lifeworld -- for the most part, we still live our lives
"in finitude", i.e., taking for granted the accidental
ethnic semiotic formations with which our childrearing
infected us, rather than proving [incl., probing...] *all* things and
holding fast [i.e., caring for...] *only* that which is good.
To my way of thinking, a person who has a Nobel prize
winning idea but has not absorbed the lesson of "The
Gentleman and his Butler" from Hegel's _Phenomenology_,
with regard to his or her lab techs and grad students,
is still far more than half "primitive".
+\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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