Subject: Re: BHA: Is it Mystify or Demystification,
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:28:52 +0100


Hi Mervy

The problem with all this, is  that teachers in pure class sociology
tend to be between the working and the ruling class. with
excessive powers in their favour - all this might change as Newtonian
laws turn the tables on all of us.

regards,

B,.


> Hi Bwanika
> 
> >Can science mystify instead of demystificating?
> 
> Indeed. But it's arguably not reducible to mystification, and 
science 
> itself can be demystified (who shall educate the educators...?)
> 
> True, Shakespeare *seems* to have got it right when he says:
> 
> Mark you this, Bassanio
> The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
> An evil soul producing holy witness
> Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
> A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
> O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
> 
> But perhaps it's the other way around?
> 
> Mervyn
> 
> In message <E1AerEv-0004RF-LH-AT-host.activemedia.no>, dbwanika 
> <dbwanika-AT-uganda.co.ug> writes
> >Listers!
> >
> >Can science mystify instead of demystificating?
> >
> >When science is misunderstood, misrepresented or misused what can be
> >the social consequences?
> >Why is it that yesterday’s scientific facts are tomorrow’s 
scientific
> >disasters?
> >How are such problems confronted without using the same science to
> >deepen or mystification of the problem?
> >
> >It appears to me, with the facts which are ruling in the scientific
> >world, social scientist categories as effects of a post modern
> >society;  from junk food, dysfunction economic theories and 
hypothesis,
> >behavioural sciences that has become media talk shows, natural 
science
> >turning societies in ir/ rational command societies- there is a 
greater
> >scientifica problem than science claims to have solved in the last 
few
> >centuries- I might be wrong but if right what is the problem
> >
> >Bwanika
> >
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