specialists, cosmologists, bla blaBLAH BLAH

[Cal Godot]

>I've puzzled over many postings to this group in terms of expressed
>attitudes toward and understandings of the "scientific". I'm not at all
>sure what you mean when you state that "science seems so dead."

Stein, et al:

I get edgy when I read this stuff, too. All my life I've been in love with
science (and I'm not a scientist, didn't study it in college). It is the
stuff of wonder, really.

Perhaps this conception of "dead science" comes from people's exposure to
science in the lower echelons of academia. Most of us are public school
educated, so when we were young & impressionable we got these tired
teachers of biology who were embittered from their divorces & low pay, not
to mention exhausted from years of dealing with the gamut of adolescent
behavior. Or perhaps the impression comes through the mass media, who tend
to present scientists as "eggheads" who spend all day in the lab & so never
experience life.

I'd have to say to anyone who thinks science is dead: GROW UP. Science is a
vital body of knowledge, a thriving method of inquiry and a hot-blooded
institution. And if you've bought into the boring scientist stereotype,
CLEAN ALL THE CHEESE OUTTA YER HEAD and read a biography of a few
fascinating folks: Oppenheimer, for one, was anything but boring.

Finally, if you think science is dead & has no chance for CPR, open your
foolish eyes and watch the entire run of COSMOS or some similar TV series.
Read a few books by Sagan or Gould or Lewis.

After all that, if you think science is dead, then you must be dead.


cal godot - agent provocateur, writer
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