[HN Gopher] Why punish a scientist for defending science?
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Why punish a scientist for defending science?
Author : EvgeniyZh
Score : 13 points
Date : 2021-12-04 14:33 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| guender wrote:
| Who needs science if there is lived experience?
| aurizon wrote:
| Strange? I wonder if this is an imitative of classic religions
| (which are fading everywhere) to create a support base for
| mysticism in general - what next? Astrology?
| hw-guy wrote:
| The Scopes trial only settled things in the U.S.; presumably
| other nations and institutions needed at some point along the way
| to have their own equivalent. It's sad that New Zealand, normally
| regarded as a "developed nation" is nearly 100 years behind the
| U.S.
| quantified wrote:
| Scopes originally lost the trial too. It's hard to see things
| as firmly settled in the US as well, "God says so" coming from
| another person's lips is powerful to a great many people.
| hw-guy wrote:
| You're absolutely right--I had misremembered the outcome of
| the trial--but it set in motion the idea of separating
| religion from science education, which now seems obvious to
| most Americans. And while the U.S. does have a wide
| contingent of (mostly uneducated) people as you describe, I
| could not imagine a serious research institution in the U.S.
| today recommending giving Biblical creation equal time with
| science in the public schools; even less, the mobbing of a
| scientist who objects to it by thousands of his colleagues
| crying for him to be removed from the National Academy of
| Sciences--with his provost and the society itself in
| agreement!
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