Reply from Christie Davies:
I have been amazed at how many scientists have taken seriously my piece
‘ Why should children have to learn science?’ . I deliberately planted
some irrelevant absurdities in the text to show it was humorous. My
occasional serious writings about science, notably in opposition to the
anti-science post-modernists , discourse analysts, social construction
of science wallahs etc. who infest my own field have been entirely on
the side of the scientists.
Much of the rest of my work concerns humour , to the study of which I
have tried to apply scientific methods to establish a testable set of
principles and to demolish those who think there is no such thing as a
truth claim. Indeed they do not think the world exists outside their own
feelings about it
Please read my research to see how I did it . It has been published as
Christie Davies, The Mirth of Nations, New Brunswick NJ, Transaction 2002
Best wishes
Christie Davies
PS I did not dislike field trips at school. Two of my contemporaries and
I enjoyed them so much that we organized many more of our own. They
became geologists and are both vastly richer than I am.
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