Re: Re: Racism and Ecology.
Louis Proyect wrote: > Carrol: > > in astronomy or esp > > I don't know. That astronomy is pretty fishy stuff. The astronomy Got me! :-) Carrol
Racism and Ecology. (fwd)
>Not an appropriate comparison. Consider rather the way in which >Broca the founder of neurology wasted so much of his life and twisted >his own scientific discoveries by his attempts to prove that women's >brains weighed less than men's brains. >Carrol We don't even need to turn to Broca. Richard Dawkins, the great scientific evolutionist of the year 2000, dedicated so much of his time to proving in _Selfish Gene_ that it is a survival strategy for men to be polygamous while it is biologically necessary for women to remain monogamous. Scientific sexism still sleeps with us. Mine
Racism and Ecology.
Mark Jones wrote: > > I think you are missing the point rather. Let me put it this way: did > Newton's theories about alchemy disqualify him as a scientist who discovered > the laws of gravity? Not an appropriate comparison. Consider rather the way in which Broca the founder of neurology wasted so much of his life and twisted his own scientific discoveries by his attempts to prove that women's brains weighed less than men's brains. An ecological theorist might believe in astronomy or esp and still perform trustworthy work in ecology. But for an ecologist to mess around with population theory as apparently Albert Bartlett did seriously undermines his credibility -- and since arithmetic is empty or a lie without out a trustworthy selection of data *and* a trustworthy selection of the right arithmetic to apply -- I think you ought to look for other sources than Bartlett. Incidentally, there will be no socialist revolution in the United States until 10s of millions of non-whites find reason to trust whites. So messing around with racist figures is again to shoot oneself in the foot politically. Politically racism is more of a threat to human survival than any global warming could be -- since racism is an impenetrable barrier to actually doing anything about global warming. Carrol
Re: Racism and Ecology.
Carrol: >brains weighed less than men's brains. An ecological theorist might >believe in astronomy or esp and still perform trustworthy work in >ecology. I don't know. That astronomy is pretty fishy stuff. The astronomy department at Columbia University is funded--as I understand it--by Shirley McClaine. Just to show you how unscientific it is, I am an Aquarius but my horoscope tells me that I am compatible with a sagittarius. All the Sagittarius women I've ever been with have given me grief. Come to think of it, all women give me grief... Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
