RE: RE: The Nuptial Gift
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RE: The Nuptial Gift

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We have different interests, I would say. I am curious or fascinated by topics that are of less interest to you and that you seem to have checked off for yourself.

As for Sheldrake, I know the criticisms but don't feel called upon to refute them. If we could have shared a topic here, I would have been pleased, so I brought it up.
In fact, I am not critical of the scientific method per se, as I hoped to make clear, I am more allergic regarding exaggerations and the media (or political) treatment of scientific papers or results.
I mentioned initial risks and serious errors in new scientific methods in medicine at their time (lobotomies, electric shocks, but also the doses of radiation used in early chemotherapy are, I believe, now part of them).

One could say that bloodletting was also considered state of the art in its time, and the doctors who practiced it probably thought of themselves as proceeding scientifically. In my sister's youth they liked to operate out tonsils and adenoids, I don't see that it is still put under such a great necessity today. Actually, one doctor wanted to do this on my son because he had problems in this regard for many years. But I was against it and in fact the problem has resolved itself.

For today's science, such is also true; in two hundred years, some of today's methods will probably no longer exist.

My point was that one should be aware that any new method or finding carries initial risks (outside of laboratory conditions) and that one does not find truth in science, but just the state of current knowledge (which, as we know, is constantly changing).

I am quite fascinated by the role of the scientific observer, the experimenter, who believes himself to act objectively.

Sheldrake is only one of those who made me pay attention by an unusual subject. Where finally someone puts money in his hand and breaks the taboo zone that his subjects occupy, I remain curious.

I am not even on the point of view that we have nothing better than science, the world is still so much more than science.

One can retain a sense of wonder and fascination with everything (also apart from it), I agree.

You prepare yourself for aliens, I maintain meanwhile relationships :)

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