[MD] Science Wars

[kieffer odigaunt]

Hi Marsha,

2009/4/22 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>

>
> Greetings Will,
>
> There is no true me.  (T)ruth is the discovery that I am false.  Yes?
>

 you are a pattern of value - and you said all patterns are true - are you
eating your words now?

I just want it to be understood clearly,neutrinos and oxytocin aside, that
> Science has investigated and studied how to manufacture desire, manufacture
> the "wanting", public manipulation; advertising and propaganda, baloney and
> garbage, are the child of Science too.
>
> For a metaphysics that is suppose to be grounded in Radical Empiricism and
> Pragmaticism, how is one suppose to act on information created by Science
> when it cannot be experienced and is profit-driven? Trust?  Is this an
> unimportant question?  Maybe this should be answered by those who want to
> say that Scientific patterns are more than just conceptual constructs.  What
> does Science know, and how does it know it?
>

The scientific method is sound - if science has a bad side it is through its
misuse by the people who do that science.

Science did not invent gravity - but science makes gravity more useful since
we understand better how it behaves

-KO