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You are confusing science with some aspects of academic culture. "Science" is not more after money than "music" or "sunshine" are. Science is the process of app

You are confusing science with some aspects of academic culture. "Science" is not more after money than "music" or "sunshine" are. Science is the process of applying the scientific method to gain understanding. That would work in a money-less society just as much as they could enjoy music or sunshine. There is rightful critisism at how academia works, especially the areas where results are so directly applicable that real money is made depending on the outcome. There is a lot of money in pharmaceuticals, in fossil fuels and even economic theories. But the majority of scientific endeavor is being done in quiet corners of academic buildings, or have you ever heard about multi-billion dollar grants for research project in mathematical proof theory, ancient western roman history or butterfly species in rural kasachstan. This view of what "science" is similar to when people think that "sports" is just "football, baseball, soccer and basketball". Yes, there is a lot of money in those, but sports is much more than that. P.S.: DoreenMichele is a lady.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
P.S.: DoreenMichele is a lady. Googles lady: a woman of superior social position, especially one of noble birth. My maternal grandmother may have been a lady in that she was born into a low level German noble family that sold the title when they fell on hard times. I, however, am a dirt poor American woman who spent years homeless and not a woman of superior social position, especially one of noble birth. So I'm laughing about that framing, especially given how you have dogged me elsewhere in this discussion. But more to the point, there are plenty of comments here in this very discussion where people refer to me as "she." So it's not necessary to correct anyone in particular in order for people here to get the memo that I happen to have girl bits between my legs, not boy bits. As a general FYI to anyone who happens to be reading, I don't think it is a best practice to nitpick specific comments in this way. In fact if you care about gender equality, I think it is actively counterproductive. I mean if the goal is to virtue signal while actively undermining equality, hey, it's probably a Best Practice in that case. But if that's not the goal, here is some food for thought: https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/it-seems-my-silence-was-heard.html https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/it-seems-my-sile...
- ganafagol 6y ago
  Sorry if you felt attacked by the term "lady". I'm not a native speaker and intended to express the gender by using the colloquial meaning of "lady". If you had preferred me writing "DoreenMichele is female" then so be it, I can completely accept that. I'm a bit less positive about you pulling this into being a gender issue overall. I corrected the previous poster's use of pronoun "he" when referring to you, and I did it in a "P.S." so it was not the main point of my post. If that's a problem and you'd rather like people calling you "he" stay uncorrected, so be it. But please don't insinuate anything about my thoughts about gender equality, or that correcting the use of "he" instead of "she" has anything to do with gender equality or virtue signaling, for that matter. I'm not sure where you feel I dogged you. I was presenting my view on what science is and is not. I did mention that you seem to think that you ought to get a nobel prize, and that this kind of statement tends to make me cautious, but both were merely a statement of fact. If you don't want anybody to quote you on that, don't say such things in the first place. And again, that has nothing to do with gender.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

P.S.: DoreenMichele is a lady. Googles lady: a woman of superior social position, especially one of noble birth. My maternal grandmother may have been a lady in that she was born into a low level German noble family that sold the title when they fell on hard times. I, however, am a dirt poor American woman who spent years homeless and not a woman of superior social position, especially one of noble birth. So I'm laughing about that framing, especially given how you have dogged me elsewhere in this discussion. But more to the point, there are plenty of comments here in this very discussion where people refer to me as "she." So it's not necessary to correct anyone in particular in order for people here to get the memo that I happen to have girl bits between my legs, not boy bits. As a general FYI to anyone who happens to be reading, I don't think it is a best practice to nitpick specific comments in this way. In fact if you care about gender equality, I think it is actively counterproductive. I mean if the goal is to virtue signal while actively undermining equality, hey, it's probably a Best Practice in that case. But if that's not the goal, here is some food for thought: https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/it-seems-my-silence-was-heard.html https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/it-seems-my-sile...

ganafagol 6y ago
Sorry if you felt attacked by the term "lady". I'm not a native speaker and intended to express the gender by using the colloquial meaning of "lady". If you had preferred me writing "DoreenMichele is female" then so be it, I can completely accept that. I'm a bit less positive about you pulling this into being a gender issue overall. I corrected the previous poster's use of pronoun "he" when referring to you, and I did it in a "P.S." so it was not the main point of my post. If that's a problem and you'd rather like people calling you "he" stay uncorrected, so be it. But please don't insinuate anything about my thoughts about gender equality, or that correcting the use of "he" instead of "she" has anything to do with gender equality or virtue signaling, for that matter. I'm not sure where you feel I dogged you. I was presenting my view on what science is and is not. I did mention that you seem to think that you ought to get a nobel prize, and that this kind of statement tends to make me cautious, but both were merely a statement of fact. If you don't want anybody to quote you on that, don't say such things in the first place. And again, that has nothing to do with gender.