[FoRK] Practicing Science: No Ideology, No False Agenda?

[Russell Turpin]

drernie at radicalcentrism.org:
> Well, at the very least, it would require implementing some definition
> of the 'scientific method', which includes peer review, right?

"Peer review" strikes me as a phrase that more has more meaning within the 
modern academic landscape than as a broader notion of what constitutes
science. The definition of science minimally has to include what the 
ancient Greek astronomers were doing, when they determined that the earth 
was a sphere, calculated its diameter, and developed models of the solar 
system, some of which were turned into mechanical computers. They didn't 
have the academic system we now have. There were no scholarly journals, 
just booksthat individual scholars would write. There was no formal process 
of peer review. Yet they were doing science.


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