Victor Davis Hanson on Settled Science Posted on March 4, 2014 by john1282 | Leave a comment I admire VDH for his writing and always have. Here he talks about settled science. Hanson is a classicist/historian, and regular contributor in political and cultural commentary at City Journal and National Review, fellow at the Hoover Inst. of Stanford and Classics Prof at UC Fresno. Hanson is also a farmer on his family farm in Selma CA not far from Fresno. He is a prolific author on military and classical history and some political commentary. nationalreview/article/372447/obamas-pseudo-scientism-victor-davis-hanson This is one of his good takeaways: Despite the Western inductive method and freedom of expression, however, human nature remains tribal. Scientists, like everyone else, find comfort in what is familiar, orthodox, and shared by their peers. Often they have invested lives and careers in ensuring that status-quo theories become unquestioned. They can be deeply suspicious of what is not institutionalized, and on occasion wildly intolerant of the nonconventional. Such homogeneity also becomes wrapped up in religion, government, and culture. Skeptics like Galileo or Lister are often hounded, censored, and ridiculed. Plato so disliked the unorthodox, but prescient, atomic theory of Democritus that he dreamed of having his written work burned. About these ads .
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