The truth about Science

Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 12:39:48 -0500

 Sean:
 
> People like our dear Geraldo readily dismiss scientific progress, yet they
> take airplanes to their silly conferences, they read their dull journals by
> electric light, and they wash their hands after a crap for fear of spreading
> disease (except perhaps the French ones). All of these actions reveal a
> faith in science advance, and, I think, just a touch of hypocrisy.
 
Yes--you won't likely find Thomas Khun demonstrating that the law of
gravity is a "constructed" truth by stepping out of his 10th floor
office window.  

I don't think many poststructuralists really "readily dismiss" science,
though.  

-- 
Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu