RE: Cons and Facades

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 20:16:18 BST

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Subject: RE: Cons and Facades
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    Joseph 1 made this comment not too long ago --

    >But it's only because of a possible misunderstanding, rather than
    >anything inherent in memetics per se.

    This possible misunderstanding could, as Aaron (I think) is vigorously
    attempting to avoid, lead the general scientific community from taking
    memetics seriously.

    Right now, memetics does have, IMHO, a Barnum-like atmosphere, with a few
    untrepidatious visitors to the booths who are hoping to see what really
    happens behind the curtain.

    The main problem being, science has no curtains.

    - Wade

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