Dawkins, on the "Post-Modern Critique of Science"

[Boston_Chemist]

I think that people ought to re-learn history from the 1930s USSR, and the damage that Lysenko wrought on their scientific establishment.

[Odin2005]

1. The last part of that is identical to what I have said in the A&A group...

...about women being pushed away from science by ideological crackpots calling it "patriarchist".

[Boston_Chemist]

2. What have you said in the A&A group?

Link to your posts?

[Odin2005]

3. Linky here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1230&pid=930

[Boston_Chemist]

4. I found your post.

Yes, this video was something I posted in direct response to your post.

Someone complained about a couple of posts I made in that thread, most likely due to their faulty comprehension of the English language. This is alarming in a people that seem to keep such a close eye on language for silly infringements.

My experience has been that people in the sciences view most of the humanities with a mixture of horror and contempt. Horror at the political fads that seem to engulf it, and contempt due to the absence of a "systematic method" that may allow people to arrive at fundamental, unalterable truths. There is also a strong component of nerd elitism at play.

Richard Dawkins, in this video, was sounding some sort of an alarm at the encroachment of that world onto the world of the scientific method. The presumption that these ... hacks would try to dominate the discourse in their field. And the reason this matters, at least from my point of view, is what I posted: Trofim Lysenko:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

[AlbertCat]

5. Great assessment from Dawkins... as usual.

But when did he develop a lisp????

Bad audio, alas.

Still, worth hearing.

[TZ]

6. "You believe in DNA". OY.

Those women should take a women in science course like I did. Amazing what discoveries women have made while being "Oppressed by the patriarchial scientific method".

[Boston_Chemist]

7. One runs into this sort of thing a lot, as a scientist

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