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06-16-2007, 12:32 PM
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Re: The Mistrust of Science and Scholarship
I also think most people are not very science or math literate. It's easy to distrust something you don't understand completely, because all the power is in the hands of those who do understand it. Look at something like DNA evidence in the OJ Simpson trial. Scientific evidence that PROVED his guilt - and it went right over the jurors' heads. It was too complicated for them to understand so they just ignored it, and probably never trusted it.
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06-16-2007, 02:32 PM
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Re: The Mistrust of Science and Scholarship
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I also think most people are not very science or math literate. [/ QUOTE ] You can say that again. We even have a few Ph.D.'s on 2p2 that screw up undergraduate material in their own field. Can we say "cheap labor"?
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06-16-2007, 03:46 PM
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Re: The Mistrust of Science and Scholarship
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I'm talking about the "party line", not individual viewpoints. I mean a lot of it has been codified into law, re: not spanking, "forced" drugging of children, etc. [/ QUOTE ] And where have you heard this "party line"? Who advocates these viewpoints? I still don't understand where you're getting this. With regard to Ritalin, my experience has been that really rich people give it to their kids, not 'intellectuals'.
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