The ugly truth of science

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

This is absurd. No one here did discriminate against scientists as human 
beings. So quit that crap! The debate is on modern science as a system 
essentially intermingled with control. And this is not an "unfounded 
stereotype" yet can be found in reality as well as in Pynchon's books. 
How do *you* think science is pictured in /Gravity's Rainbow/?


On 16.06.2013 05:35, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
> On 6/15/2013 6:58 PM, Markekohut wrote:
>
> > Keep accepting the ambiguity of the debate, I suggest. Live in the 
> muddle of the Excluded Middle.
>
> Well, I'm trying. Which I guess is why I'm still here. But the attacks 
> on science feel pretty personal, and they sting. I don't think I could 
> get away with talking about how, say, black folks are ignorant and 
> violent. But completely unfounded stereotypes about "scientists" seem 
> to be fair game.
>
> I guess (just to get a little bit more serious) it's similar to how 
> discrimination against Jews for college admission was commonplace and 
> accepted in the mid twentieth century. Or against Asians is accepted 
> now. I'm not even sure I want to "go here". But i think everyone would 
> do a little better to speak and write with some more compassion and 
> without a need to cast all blame on some Other.
>
> - Joe
>
>
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