Re: "Political Correctness" drives scientific errors

From: OsherD (mdoctorow_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/20/05 

Date: 19 Mar 2005 16:06:29 -0800

>>From Osher Doctorow

Replicability of results is an excellent method provided for results
that are "replicable". I wouldn't quite apply it as a standard to
9-11, the beginning of the Matter-Dominated Era, evaporation (or not)
of black holes, the cure of AIDS, and on and on. There are definitely
places where imagination and originality and speculation are needed in
science, mathematics, engineering, medicine, etc., and where
exploratory studies are needed. In fact, biological and behavioral
and social sciences are full of exploratory studies, which could well
be studied by physicists not wearing blinkers or should I say
sunglasses?

Exploration does require an axiom or two (or should we say "convention"
in order not to frighten the Fairy Tale believers in young physics?)
such as "tolerating rather than killing off competing theories",
"thinking about what could be rather than exclusively about is",
"thinking abstractly as well as or sometimes more than concretely," and
on and on. I realize that in a generation where marching for the "good
guys with lots of promises and little to show" in politics is far more
the fad than philosophy, it is difficult to "peddle" philosophy and
modifications of methods. My guess is that philosophy will survive the
Age of TV/VCR/Dumb-But-Fast-Computers/Conformity, at which point
Exploration rather than Survival-Of-The-Fittest will probably resume.

Osher Doctorow

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