tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post4907952020811983095..comments2023-09-10T08:35:25.739-07:00Comments on Street Rat Crazy Saloon: The Problem With Science is ScientistsDinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907199567928816652noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-36675932816124591242010-04-20T07:07:33.753-07:002010-04-20T07:07:33.753-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-40867482442061885432010-04-20T01:20:36.083-07:002010-04-20T01:20:36.083-07:00No need for forgiveness in my book.
No intellectua...No need for forgiveness in my book.<br />No intellectual laziness.<br />In my book, the idea is sharing what allows us to get up in the morning, right ?Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-8974681516210470342010-04-19T15:43:52.974-07:002010-04-19T15:43:52.974-07:00Great post
I agree with all of itGreat post<br /><br />I agree with all of itThaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-69522855022689855992010-04-19T14:46:03.240-07:002010-04-19T14:46:03.240-07:00I do very much appreciate the absurdity of it Debr...I do very much appreciate the absurdity of it Debra. <br /><br />As Heisenberg once wrote "most things in the world can be abused." He was referring to Dirac's derision of religion. Science which I love dearly can be abused as well.I am so suspect of brain studies and what they can tell us. <br /><br />By the way, forgive me for this post. I know it could be seen as intellectually lazy but it is a response to the very technical discussions we have had as late. This person summed up my skepticism as well as I could have had on this issue and I felt that the post should be read as written rather than paraphrased by me. JohnDr Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07453949255704523726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8206677169397293052.post-86890142359398910912010-04-19T14:22:19.787-07:002010-04-19T14:22:19.787-07:00I remember reading that study and snorting...
Do y...I remember reading that study and snorting...<br />Do you remember how... way back when, doctrine dictated that autism was the result of a fuck up in the early child/parent relationship ?<br />How the shrinks got all... priestly about it, and many became supercilious, WITH THE RESULT that many parents of autistic children (whatever that means, and this diagnosis is REALLY up for grabs...) almost automatically felt extremely guilty ?<br />It didn't take very long for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction, did it ?<br />Vulgarisation is an enormous problem. Realizing how much the shrink game is consumed with the personal and professional power that stems from vulgarization is one of the reasons I have officially abandoned the profession. <br />On another note, I am bemused by the stuff that comes out from semi official organizations telling me that religious wackos are attacking SERIOUS scientists who are speaking TRUTH to us all, and that their findings AS SCIENTISTS are ONLY motivated by the purest desire to pursue pristeen, untarnished knowledge.<br />As though, somehow... "science" could be put in a little box where politics could never touch it...<br />We have been telling ourselves this stuff for quite a while now.<br />I am NOT saying that scientists are out to manipulate us. Not at all. I am just saying that... they are human like the rest of us. We SHOULD know what that means, huh ? <br />But, realizing this makes it a hell of a lot harder to decide what or who we're going to believe, doesn't it ? (Oops, my favorite subject again, it escaped me... ;-) )<br />I would like to say more, but it will have to wait, as I don't have your piece in view, it's hidden.<br />Really excellent. Thanks. <br />I said a while back that Freud and company were slugging it out over the equivalent of this article way back when.<br />It occasionally despairs me to see that there really is NO progress. Every generation has to discover things on its own.<br />On a last stream of consciousness related matter, a couple of years ago, I got REALLY HYSTERICAL on my forum about that scientific cute idea of preventive diagnoses of schizophrenia on very operative criteria. Diagnoses for... two year olds, (maybe a little older...). VERY HYSTERICAL.<br />You can appreciate, I hope, Doctor John...Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.com