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By removing vibrant people and bizarre stories from scientific history you are doing science a disservice by deterring the smartest, creative people, many of wh
by crystaln 13y ago
By removing vibrant people and bizarre stories from scientific history you are doing science a disservice by deterring the smartest, creative people, many of whole are quirky, from the sterile, close-minded politicized world of science.
The less white-washing the better. We need to know our heros were crazy just like us.
- trhway 13y agoas a sidenote, the article's mentioning of sex orgies in Pasadena house of the rocket science founder brought by association the history of Christian religion - how the group of 14 open-minded in absolutely all respects hippies who got no taboo unbroken got white-washed into 13 saints and 1 god of an extremely conservative/close-minded religion. The process is pretty universal, and modern science is like a religion in many respects.
- crystaln 13y ago> modern science is like a religion in many respects I'd disagree with that, in that science when practiced purely is inherently self doubting and does not claim to know anything. However as practiced, it can sometimes take on the doctrinaire culture of religion. As far as the 14 open-minded hippies, do you have some evidence that the disciples engaged in drug-fueled orgies? I'd be curious to read about that.