Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id PAA27539 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:05:05 +0100 Subject: Re: Casualty of War Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:02:40 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas est veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000720140248.AAA29755@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 07/20/00 09:39, Aaron Lynch said this-
>It is clear that collaboration, collegiality, and
>discourse cannot happen between certain parties unless there is convincing
>evidence that real peace has broken out.
And it is prime material to the objectors to science to see this
conflict, as if such conflict weren't a part of daily social
interaction....
It is not an easy thing to remain congenial when beliefs are being
bandied and tossed and filtered and dissected and discouraged- all the
things science does to the things with which it is presented. It is
difficult to collaborate with personal agendas and egos and imperatives
in place and it is more difficult still to let others join you, and truly
difficult to watch them move along your path with more speed.
And yet, somehow, it is not difficult to watch others do this....
It's time for a cathartic tragedy in science- one where the scientist is
at last a hero in the true and dense sense of being a representative of
the human race who cannot do anything else but science, and we watch
while he steps deeper into pain.
Because there is a humanity to science, and there are heroes.
We need to see them flex muscles, not flap tongues. Stride on, not bark
from the sidelines.
- Wade
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