spalinns are not just hubris.
Perhaps hubris in science does go with arrogance and a certain naivete.
Take the example of behaviorist psychologists embracing the exclusions and strictures of logical positivism. Decades later we acknowledge that Pavlov's dogs and Skinner's pigeons were not automatons. Even lab rats left to their own devices revert to communal rat solutions to fascinating problems for any species living in colonies or in over-crowding or contending with other constraints. Perhaps what was missing was not a theory of consciousness so much as a theory of general anaethesia.
The belief in technique informed by science was certainly embraced by the American demagogues of the Technocracy movement and Stalin's technocrats. Only one had unfettered power for decades: the US Army Corps of Engineers was eventually restrained (in part through mandated peer review.)
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Monday, December 21, 2009
spalinns: a pronunciation guide
True "spalinns" are pronounced "spellin's" as in "There are no agreed spellings in science".
There is no singular. No singular idiotic denial of scientific research, data, theory or accepted fact consititutes "spalinns". The term 'spalinns' is never capitalized.
spalinns occur at the point where one bit of idiocy is only conceivable in active participation with another egregious moronic belief.
spalinns due not constitute a belief system.
spalinns are a result of the willingness to pretend that science is just a way of talking so as to pursuade people to accept a point of view. Any strident political discourse or theology is as good as any scientific culture, institution, discourse or movement.
spalinns result from the notion that nothing can be proven wrong, but that those who disagree with you are obviously wrong - and more so with repetition. twitter is the place to repeat.
The end of science in the medieval world of Islam was due to a fatwa likely inspired by a nexus of spalinns. Nothing is new under the spell of spalinns.
Doctor Johnson should not be blamed for English spellin's.
There is no singular. No singular idiotic denial of scientific research, data, theory or accepted fact consititutes "spalinns". The term 'spalinns' is never capitalized.
spalinns occur at the point where one bit of idiocy is only conceivable in active participation with another egregious moronic belief.
spalinns due not constitute a belief system.
spalinns are a result of the willingness to pretend that science is just a way of talking so as to pursuade people to accept a point of view. Any strident political discourse or theology is as good as any scientific culture, institution, discourse or movement.
spalinns result from the notion that nothing can be proven wrong, but that those who disagree with you are obviously wrong - and more so with repetition. twitter is the place to repeat.
The end of science in the medieval world of Islam was due to a fatwa likely inspired by a nexus of spalinns. Nothing is new under the spell of spalinns.
Doctor Johnson should not be blamed for English spellin's.
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