The trouble with Richard Lewontin
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that while he accuses all science of being ideological, it seems like he’s justifying the strong ideology behind his own writing.
is that while he accuses all science of being ideological, it seems like he’s justifying the strong ideology behind his own writing.
is that if it was not defined as a psychosomatic disorder, fewer people would be suffering from it now.
is that they defy the law of conservation of mass, pooping more than they eat.
is that if you think you understand it, you don’t understand it. (Richard Feynman)
is that the law of Cable physics that explains why they get tangled up spontaneously has not been discovered yet.
is that, given the same time, you can finish many more projects that actually interest you.
is that while we’ve learned to calculate the outcomes of all sorts of experiments, we’ve lost much of our ability to describe what is really happening in any natural language. (A. Steinberg)
is that it has an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Beyond Belief - The Science Network)
is that it feeds its young with the milk of another species.
is that it’s knee-deep in local phenomena like literature, history and politics and ignores the broader philosophical implications of the natural sciences.
