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

Russell Turpin <deafbox at hotmail.com> on Wed Jan 9 11:49:32 PST 2008


drernie at radicalcentrism.org:
> But the thing that was great about the Greeks is that they were *huge*
> arguers and debaters. They didn't just have isolated gurus making
> pronouncements about what the world was like. Everybody who had an
> idea had to fight about it in the "marketplace of ideas", and be
> judged by the "wisdom of the crowds."

Agree, wholeheartedly. But when we say "peer review," today 
we mean something quite different. 

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