Re: Expelled: If you don't believe in holy physics dogma ; you're

On Jun 19, 2:59=A0am, Benj <bjac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


> The attacks always take the same form. The author is accused of
> "pseudoscience". The authors find that grants and sup****t dry up.
> Papers are rejected. Jobs suddenly become unavailable. You get fired.
> You get denied tenure and not for the normal reasons like being a
> woman or not willing to grovel before the tenured faculty. Attacks
> often extend to being accused of mental illness or incompetence.
>

I don't know why everyone is surprised,it is not a new development and
is a natural part of the empirical defences ,the old commie manifestos
were full of this breathless stuff and no wonder Americans intutively
hate the pseudo-pomp of empiricists,apart from the last approach to an
objector,the following excerpt from the 1930's just about covers it
all  -

"When his allegiance is attacked, the psychopolitical operative should
explain his connection with Vienna on the grounds that Vienna is the
place of study for all im****tant matters of the mind.

More im****tantly, he should rule into scorn, by reason of his
authority, the sanity of the person attacking him, and if the
psychopolitical archives of the country are adequate many defamatory
data can be unearthed and presented as a rebuttal.

Should anyone attempt to expose psychotherapy as a psychopolitical
activity, the best defense is calling into question the sanity of the
attacker. The next best defense is authority. The next best defense is
a validation of psychiatric practices in terms of long and impressive
figures. The next best defense is the actual removal of the attacker
by giving him, or them, treatment sufficient to bring about a period
of insanity for the duration of the trial. This, more than anything
else, would discredit them, but it is dangerous to practice this, in
the extreme." Chapter X

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/psychopolitics-pt2.html#anchor10

An ideology succeeds so long as it does not  admit 'failure' and Uncle
Al is more or less affirming the party line even though the  core
empirical  framework  which sup****ts conceptual views of the
cosmological arena are astrological in content and character.

When an ideology moves to a phase of all stick and no carrot then it
becomes interesting and so it should.Wile many think that the problem
can be restricted to biological evolutionary material,the real problem
is with structural and timekeeping astronomy.