Big Bang?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 09/10/2005, at 9:07 PM, Cyrus wrote:

>> Does "Science", or your version of it, [...]
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> MY version of it? What does that mean? Are there more than one? If it 
> follows the scientific method it's science, isn't it? Is there more to 
> it?

Sure -- paradigm shifts, new scientific disciplines and methodologies, 
qualitative as well as quantitative approaches, the philosophy of 
science, ethics etc etc. There's a lot more to "Science" and its 
methodology nowadays than Beaker the Muppet.

http://dharma-haven.org/science/myth-of-scientific-method.htm (seems 
like a reasonable overview, linked from the wikipedia entry on "the 
scientific method")

Pynchon's depictions of scientists (and scientists at work) are pretty 
negative on the whole -- Ben Franklin in M&D is another example. The 
new book will be interesting in this context.

best