November 14, 2018
Hijacked Science
By Anthony J. DeBlasi
Commenting on the abuse of science, the late John Silber, a former president of Boston University, stated (1988):
Scientific programs that are powerfully effective in understanding and controlling largely isolated data in such fields as physics, have been applied crudely, reductively, and disastrously in the humanities and social sciences. Discipline after discipline has succumbed to the dogma that only the quantifiable is true.
Such oversight regarding first things serves to reduce knowledge about human life and serves a side of human nature that Alan Watts liked to call “rascalityâ€:
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/11/hijacked_science.html#ixzz5WpaEGn00
