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

[Jeff Bone]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

> Heck, I'll go further -- most of the "religious evil" problems Jeff  
> is fond of complaining about can be traced directly to Surowiecki's  
> list of failures:
>
> * homogeneity
> * centralization
> * divisions
> * imitation
> * emotionality

Absolutely true, but the "systematic belief in completely  
preposterous bullshit" aspect of things is a force multiplier for all  
of the above. :-P ;-)

jb