[MD] Bo's weak versus strong interpretation of quantum physiks

[Krimel]

[Platt] 
Just suggesting that scientists and those who use scientific methods are
human, subject to the same temptations as anyone else, like government
funding. 

[Krimel]
So are judges, priests, writers of fiction and purveyors of right wing
rhetoric. We are all human and subject to human limitations. The whole point
of a "method" whether scientific, legal, medical or literary is to overcome
those limitations as best we can. Rather than surrender to the inevitability
of human fallibility our "methods" are a way of doing our best. 

The descendants of Plato's Academy form a community that spans the globe and
encompasses every area of human inquiry. Government funding inadequate as it
is, is by no means the only source that funds in the academy. Many
institutions of higher learning are private and many perhaps most are in
other countries. For people committed to honest inquiry funding is a means
to an end and not as you would have the sole reason for being.

[Platt]
Not cynical, realistic. Also, I recognize that science operates under
certain basic assumptions that its method cannot prove, like determinism,
reductionism, materialism and the ever-popular emergentism. That's what I
meant by it being a fairly static system.

[Krimel]
Only someone unfamiliar with the diversity of opinion represented in even a
single discipline could make such a statement. Only someone who has slept
through the past 50 years could claim that the results of the work of the
academy is static. From civil rights to cell phones the academy has laid the
foundation for the transformation of society and the individuals it
supports.