[FoRK] Science: No Ideology, No False Agenda

[owen at permafrost.net]

Curious if anyone on this group has read Edward Hooper's "The River", which gives me pause before saying that science is entirely beneficial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hooper

"which investigates the origins and early epidemiology of AIDS and makes a case for the OPV AIDS hypothesis, the claim that the AIDS virus was accidentally created by scientists testing an experimental polio vaccine."

Owen

-----Original Message-----
From: Lion Kimbro <lionkimbro at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 3:08pm
To: Friends of Rohit Khare <fork at xent.com>
Subject: Re: [FoRK] Science: No Ideology, No False Agenda

  http://www-tech.mit.edu/V116/N55/djerassi.55n.html

  """
Celebrated novelist Carl Djerassi raised ethical and cultural issues
in the academic sciences in his talk "Nobel Science/Nobel Lust:
Revealing Tribal Secrets," delivered to a packed audience in 10-250
Tuesday night.

In order to maintain a requisite level of trust in the academic
scientific community, the lay public as well as scientists themselves
"need a more realistic picture of what science is about," Djerassi
said.
  """

  His idea is that we should speak publicly about how science works,
and work for understanding, rather than presenting a simplistic image
of "the goodness of science," to be faithfully worshiped, a party line
to be towed.

  Bruno Latour is another good source of similar (though different) thinking.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour



On Jan 8, 2008 10:52 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
> Well put:
>
>    http://informationparadox.blogspot.com/2008/01/science-no-ideology-
> no-false-agenda.html
>
> jb
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