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Sam Carana  
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 More options Sep 26 2005, 2:24 am
From: Sam Carana <sam.car...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:24:36 +1000
Local: Mon, Sep 26 2005 2:24 am
Subject: Re: [epistemology] Re: The Trabant Model Of Science

On 9/26/05, Souvik <souvik1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Indeed, few scientists seem to be bothered that science is organized
> along
> > the lines of the Trabant model. It's amazing that scientists who strive
> to
> > ban political influence, personal bias and wishful thinking from their
> > observations, suddenly abandon all rationality and objectivity when it
> > concerns the way science itself is structured.
> > Sam

> Not to say that there's something *terribly* wrong with the way the
> science enterprise is structured (in the US or the world), but what is your
> alternative?

My proposal is structural separation. That's a method that has proven to
work where unhealthy monopolies abuse their dominant position.
 Sam

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