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Re: permaculture digest: December 06, 2001
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: permaculture digest: December 06, 2001
- From: Peter <permaculture@theplague.net>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 07:26:45 -0500
- In-reply-to: <LISTMANAGER-137809-32983-2001.12.07-00.01.30--permaculture#theplague.net@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
> That's why science is inherently "political" - because *all* data,
> experiments, statistics, calculations, quantifying, verifying etc. are
> observed/created/designed/manipulated/*done* by living breathing human
> beings, who have intents and desires and beliefs and loves and hates
> and so on, against which some abstract idea of "pure" science doesn't
> stand a chance of surviving in practice.
Check out a 50 year old textbook on reproductive biology sometime if you
need an example of this. Its quite interesting.
Peter