http://www.shessuchageek.com/2007/02/03/a-peoples-history-of-science/ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:59:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2007/02/03/a-peoples-history-of-science/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 Lee Kottner Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:40:23 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2007/02/03/a-peoples-history-of-science/#comment-1423 It's a nice illusion while it lasts though, isn't it? Oddly enough, it was when I started doing literary criticism in graduate school while teaching science writing that I began to see that the world of science was anything but the objective paradise that it pretends to be. There was the same jockeying for position by various competing schools of theory and disciplines, the same political maneuvering for tenure and grants and security. Power and politics and fear and desire color everything humans do, but of course, you can't say that to most scientists, or if you do, you only get dimissed as a fuzzy thinker. It’s a nice illusion while it lasts though, isn’t it? Oddly enough, it was when I started doing literary criticism in graduate school while teaching science writing that I began to see that the world of science was anything but the objective paradise that it pretends to be. There was the same jockeying for position by various competing schools of theory and disciplines, the same political maneuvering for tenure and grants and security. Power and politics and fear and desire color everything humans do, but of course, you can’t say that to most scientists, or if you do, you only get dimissed as a fuzzy thinker.

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