On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 11:45 +0100, Phil Evans wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2009, at 10:53, Kevin Cowtan wrote:
> >
> I thought that the point of Enlightenment science was a rejection of
> (Aristotelian) authority, basing science of empirical observations. If
> properly conducted, Science is inherently not based on authority but
> on evidence...
Indeed. The word expertise is more appropriate in science than authority.
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You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people
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David J. Schuller
modern man in a post-modern world
MacCHESS, Cornell University
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