[MD] The Individual Level

[Platt Holden]

Hi All:

Still another reason why the intellectual level might better be called 
the individual level:

"But can he argue that the moral question, 'Is it all right to fake 
your scientific data?' is not a scientific question? Can he say, as a 
scientist, 'The faking of scientific data is no concern of science?' " 
(Lila, 24) 

The individual moral character traits of honesty, integrity and 
personal responsibility are an intrinsic to the value of science, the 
quintessential intellectual level pattern. Without individual devotion 
to truthfulness, the intellectual pattern of science disintegrates to 
social level junk.

Best,
Platt