every time I see someone approach him with a needle my instinctive reaction is to punch them in the back of the neck.
I suspect this is true of many people
Really? Having a person in a sufficiently-medical-looking-outfit in a building that I know is a "doctor place" approach my kids with needles doesn't bother me at all.
Sure there's *some* overlap, but -- for example -- does Epistemological Anarchism (science [is] an ideology alongside others such as religion, magic and mythology, and considers the dominance of science in society authoritarian and unjustified) actually serve any purpose other than to demonstrate that some PhD completely misunderstands Science?
But we need some sort of disciplined critical thinking to decide what questions about the universe we "ought" to explore, and what changes in the world we "ought" to make. That should be the domain of philosophy.
Perhaps they could have used a bit more philosophy on the front end and not merely engineering-uber-alles?
Perhaps...
But then they'd also have watched a million+ people (both military and civilian) die and/or become horribly wounded during the invasion of the Home Islands.
And the reaction of all those families who's loved ones would have died, when they learned that the physicists had "moral qualms"?
It's only important to pompous eggheads who can't bend their intellectual abilities towards some *useful* endeavors.
It's sad to witness how putting down philosophy has become the norm.
No it's not, because the people who dream up philosophy are blathering fools.
All the decent/useful philosophical concepts have already been considered, and flogged to death. All that's left is to come up with hair-brained idiocy like "science as an ideology alongside others such as religion, magic and mythology, and considers the dominance of science in society authoritarian and unjustified."
If science threatens that liberty by making totalitarian claims (i.e. science is absolutely justified because it has a method and/or epistemological foundation that leads to objective truth) they should be resisted because no such claim has been substantiated and they constitute a fundamental attack on human liberty.
That's the *silliest* statement I think I've ever read, and after looking up Feyerabend in Wikipedia, I see why: Epistemological anarchism.
It "advocates treating science as an ideology alongside others such as religion, magic and mythology, and considers the dominance of science in society authoritarian and unjustified."
The pharmaceutical industry is easily one of the most corrupt industries known to man.
Well, thank goodness that those thieving bastards discovered a drug that controls the seizures that 70 years ago would have seen me shunted to a sanitarium.
As it is, for US$100/month, I've got a well-paying job, wife, 2 kids and an "above water" mortgage.
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Did you want that to happen?
Wrong question.
Since people still need/want to buy cars, another company or two would have purchased the GM & Chrysler assets and life would go on.
Besides the obvious, snarky answers, how do you electrically *ground* an aircraft?
So, an 89 year old has been running the same defense office for 37 years?
I call BS.
Really? I thought the CDDL put the kibosh on that idea a year ago...
Hm, you're right. I thought they used strap-on SRBs, but apparently they don't.
Loading Emacs onto a Sun-3.
But the Russians use SRBs and assemble horizontally.
The Challenger Accident happened because it's SRBs have O-rings.
They have O-rings because they are too big to be shipped in one piece 3/4 the way across the continent, by train and barge from Utah to Florida.
Really? Having a person in a sufficiently-medical-looking-outfit in a building that I know is a "doctor place" approach my kids with needles doesn't bother me at all.
25 years ago, it was COBOL programmers that we fresh Uni grads sneered at.
(Then I got a job programming... COBOL and learned what an excellent and powerful domain-specific language it is.)
Sure there's *some* overlap, but -- for example -- does Epistemological Anarchism (science [is] an ideology alongside others such as religion, magic and mythology, and considers the dominance of science in society authoritarian and unjustified) actually serve any purpose other than to demonstrate that some PhD completely misunderstands Science?
But isn't GPU-assisted-Flash only about 6 months old?
Which zolltron seems not to realize, since he referenced them in defense of "common day" philosophers.
Ah, good old Appeal To Authority.
That's "moral philosophy".
Hume, Kant & Smith are *long* dead.
Perhaps they could have used a bit more philosophy on the front end and not merely engineering-uber-alles?
Perhaps...
But then they'd also have watched a million+ people (both military and civilian) die and/or become horribly wounded during the invasion of the Home Islands.
And the reaction of all those families who's loved ones would have died, when they learned that the physicists had "moral qualms"?
The outrage would be palpable.
One, educated in the hard-sciences PhD writes that 5 criteria>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn#The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions must help determine which of two competing scientific theories you follow:
Another, who studied Philosophy, wrote that science is an ideology like religion and voodoo.
It's only important to pompous eggheads who can't bend their intellectual abilities towards some *useful* endeavors.
No it's not, because the people who dream up philosophy are blathering fools.
All the decent/useful philosophical concepts have already been considered, and flogged to death. All that's left is to come up with hair-brained idiocy like "science as an ideology alongside others such as religion, magic and mythology, and considers the dominance of science in society authoritarian and unjustified."
That's the *silliest* statement I think I've ever read, and after looking up Feyerabend in Wikipedia, I see why: Epistemological anarchism.
It "advocates treating science as an ideology alongside others such as religion, magic and mythology, and considers the dominance of science in society authoritarian and unjustified."
Someone has too God Damned much time on their hands, which would be more productively spent teaching undergrads and in-fighting with other Professors.
I try to do at least *some* due diligence before disagreeing with Received Slashdot Wisdom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbamazepine#History
Not every condition is fixable...
Well, thank goodness that those thieving bastards discovered a drug that controls the seizures that 70 years ago would have seen me shunted to a sanitarium.
As it is, for US$100/month, I've got a well-paying job, wife, 2 kids and an "above water" mortgage.
Chemical analysis of various sorts is possible even when DNA analysis is not possible.
What kind? (IOW, what key words do I Google?)