SCIENTIFIC WHORES (But They Have Lots of Company).

More eloquent words from Alfred de Grazia, publisher of
American Behavioral Scientist, as they so courageously
appeared in "The Velikovsky Affair: The Warfare of Science
and Scientism" published in 1966.

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In the chapter entitled "Scientific Reception," Alfred de Grazia
did a magnificent job explaining what is truly wrong in certain
scientific disciplines and offering suggestions as to how
the cesspool of deceit, deception, collusion and conspiracy
-- (MY words, not his) -- might someday be cleaned up.

~~~~~~~~~

Stated De Grazia:

"Immanuel Velikovsky propounded a synthetic theory
of the highest order.

He reordered classical chronology. He derived important
truths from ancient sources that science had abandoned.
Profound experiences of man's ancestors are revealed anew.
He therefore has given us a new understanding of man's nature.

"He has shown that the present order of the solar system
is quite new and that unaccounted forces help govern it.

"He has struck at a great part of the Darwinian
explanation of evolution. He has upset several
major theories of geology and offered substitutes
therefore.

"He found space in a vacuum and has made of it a pllenum.

"A great many of his truths are to be found scattered in
the historical and contemporary byways of science.

"As bits of information and fragmented theories, they meant
little or nothing to the many scholars and scientists who
may have glanced at them and turned away.

"With rare imagination and consummate skill, he fashioned
them into theories of great scope, compactness, and integration.

"While his ideas are not at all beyond criticism, as a cosmogonist,
he appears in the company of Plato, Aquinas, Bruno, Descartes,
Newton and Kant.

"What would therefore be only the duty of the critics of science
-- to defend ordinary or even mistaken scholars -- becomes,
by accident, an occasion to defend a great savant of the age."

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"The beginning of such a revolution must be
in scientific self-knowledge. At present, scientists
appear to study everything but themselves.

"An institute for research in scientific procecures
is needed to initiate and conduct a wide variety
of research projects on the behavoir of scientists.

"The institute should be amply supported by numerous
individuals and groups and should be beholden to none . . .

~~~~~~~

"The education of scientists must be broadened to include
a knowledge of the aims and methods of the humanistic
and behavioral disciplines.

"The average scientist needs to know more of the history of science,
but especially of an analytic sociological history of science.

"Unfortunately, the history of science
is largely old-fashioned chronological
recitation and a rnalist technical analysis.

"The sociology of knowledge, epistemology, and pragmatic logic
should be regular instruments of all the sciences and philosophy.

" The education of scientists should include ethical training.

"The cynicism normally provoked by analysis of the type undertaken
in the present article can have a destructive effect upon creative and
sustained work unless there appear to be social and professional
forces working toward rationalistic ideals.

"The rationalistic model of science itself needs reformulation and
reinforcement.

"Despite its failures in the Velikovsky case, it remains the most
acceptable of the model reception systems of science presently
conceivable.

"The more frequent employment of psychiatric techniques to give
specialists insight into their motives and behaviors would help
to prevent destructiveness,
exclusiveness and other
unconsciously prevoked behaviors.

~~~~~

ON REPORTING ABOUT SCIENTIFIC BEHAVIOR

"Periodic surveys, assessments and agendas of scientific work in every
discipline are needed.

"A clear and frank set of observations about what is and is not going
on in science can help prevent a slump into the chaos of indeterminacy
and into the evasive and irrelevant actions of the power hungry.

"
For science and all of its parts, regular reports should be prepared
on the costs of maintenance, and on any imbalances between scientific
and other social costs and among the various sub-sciences.

~~~~~~~

" In the end, it is the outcome of the power struggle
that determines whether the truth is admitted, not
the rationalistic tests.

"Just as a soldier or a bureaucrat will exclaim in amazement
over the gargantuan capacity of the collective organism
to ingest irrationality and inefficiency, the scientist with any
degree of historical prospective must often be shocked
at the frequency with which power determines what the law
of human and natural behavior "are" and how a corpus
of science survives.

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THE DOGMATIC MODEL

"A final model, the dogmatic, requires exposition.

"Professor (Livio) Stecchini has given ample reasons to believe
that the resistance to the astronomcal theories of Velikovsky was
motivated by sheer ideology, a dislike of challenge to the orderly
universe.

"Much knowledge can be brought forward from other fields
of knowledge -- archaeology, biblical studies, paleontology,
geology, physics and biology -- to the same effect;
the theories of Velikovsky operating against
the prevailing dogma are repulsed vigorously.

"Every weapon is brought into play
against the new ideas -- authoratative
denunciation; arguments ad hominem;
tricks of logic and evidence; suppression;
denial of rewards; and stony silence.

"By the rules of the dogmatic model, what
happens is explained solely and adequately
by the fact that all believers in the state
of present knowldge unite to resist the
innovator.

"New material and men are accepted
in the proportion to which they conform
with prevailing theories and norms."

Ed Conrad
http://www.edconrad.com

Man as Old as Coal

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Man as Old as Coal

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