Hello, Stephen! Thank you for sending such interesting and newsworthy information via Scipolicy. The participants on the list serve and their input is also ...
Beasley, Mary
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May 1, 2001 5:35 pm
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Norm, No one has ever considered the possibility we are discussing. The authority of science, in its mechanistic guise, has made sure of that. Newton made sure...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 1, 2001 6:35 pm
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There apparently is now a job opening for the position of Grand Inquisitor. The previous Inquisitor has quit. Please spread the word. Fred <<In the meantime,...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 2, 2001 12:04 am
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Flower Essence Corporation Launches zenbody.com for Women's Health, Healing, and Beauty, a site focusing on Chinese Herbs. San Ramon, CA...
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May 2, 2001 12:23 am
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Val, I am sorry for the delay in responding to your postings. I very much thank you for your assistance and appreciate your responses. I felt that Norman...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 2, 2001 3:50 pm
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Val, The story Isaac Newton told us in the Principia was that matter is inert, so that the forces which cause a material body to change its state of motion ...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 2, 2001 8:53 pm
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I too would like to see the debate continue. The question of authority of science is profound given that authority comes from the givers - bottom up (Max...
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May 2, 2001 10:07 pm
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From Physicians News Digest MAy 2, 2001 SHORTER HOSPITAL STAYS OF CORONARY BYPASS PATIENTS ARE NOT PRODUCING EXPECTED COST SAVINGS TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, ...
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May 3, 2001 2:12 pm
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PND NEWS BRIEFS - SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDITION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A daily round-up of local medical news May 2, 2001 ...
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May 3, 2001 2:12 pm
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From Evolutionary-Psychology discussion list 5/3/01 ... Estrogen Is Evolution's Most Ancient Steroid Hormone By reconstructing a DNA sequence that existed more...
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May 3, 2001 2:19 pm
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Interesting idea. Let's call Sokal's jumping out of his window his second experiment (presumably a thought experiment) in the sociology of science. The...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 3, 2001 2:43 pm
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I meant Science Wars Foundation. They are essentially the same thing in my mind (as indicated in the paper which started this thread), so I sometimes get the...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 3, 2001 3:10 pm
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Re: Walking out of Alan Sokal's Window I must agree with Dr Zaman's position that there is room for other interpretations. ... the ... present ... In my youth,...
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May 3, 2001 4:02 pm
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Maybe either view is wrong. Maybe we do have to stick with Einstein and talk about relations between bodies, acceleration relative to each other and self, the...
Michael Lamport Commons
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May 3, 2001 6:30 pm
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RE: Sticking with Einstein-comment on Michael Commons proposal regarding relativity theory: The complete elimination of force in physical theory that you...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 3, 2001 8:16 pm
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... Does this mean that the existence of problems that relativity theory could solve and Newtonian physics could not solve would constitute evidence for the...
patricia bowne
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May 3, 2001 11:12 pm
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I find this thread hard to follow. I gave a perfectly logical answer and then you give me a socially contextualized answer. Of course in the social world,...
Michael Lamport Commons
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May 3, 2001 11:18 pm
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... Newtonian ... in ... which ... Patricia, 1. Relativity theory in truth does not require a mechanistic world but has been designed in its interpretation to...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 4, 2001 12:43 pm
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RE: social conventions vs. the real truth of physics ... I find this thread hard to follow. I gave a perfectly logical answer and then you give me a socially...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 4, 2001 2:45 pm
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no sig. no default on reply. but add in message window ... _______________________________________________________ David M. Bott, Ph.D....
David M. Bott
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May 4, 2001 3:15 pm
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I got the quotes but no message from David Bott. Was there one? ... From: David M. Bott [mailto:david.m.bott@...] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:19 AM ...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 4, 2001 3:21 pm
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There are two kinds of views of the world--the Lumpers, which you espouses that says that one should not separate variables, and always consider all possible...
Michael Lamport Commons
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May 4, 2001 5:44 pm
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Hi Stephen, I'm not suporised, unfortunately this is a group that should of downsized years ago and never did. PPS ... From: Stephen Miles Sacks, Ph.D....
p shaheen
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May 4, 2001 5:56 pm
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Frederick Zaman writes: <<All science ultimately is a social phenomenon, and neither the mathematics, methodology or experimentation of the sciences can change...
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May 4, 2001 5:58 pm
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To be even more complex, in particle physics, the particles are carriers of forces and the forces are the particles. But what that means is that the ...
Michael Lamport Commons
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May 4, 2001 6:11 pm
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Re: Social Construction - Charts of Chemical Elements Empirically, chemical reactions do happen regularly and predictably under given conditions. While the...
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May 4, 2001 7:22 pm
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Stephen Miles writes: <<A few days ago I suggested that the chart of chemical elements is sans social construction. How does social construction possibly enter...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 4, 2001 8:12 pm
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Michael Lamport Commons wrote: <<There are two kinds of views of the world--the Lumpers, which you espouses that says that one should not separate variables,...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 4, 2001 9:15 pm
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Michael Lamport Commons wrote: <<To be even more complex, in particle physics, the particles are carriers of forces and the forces are the particles. But what...
Zaman Frederick L Civ...
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May 4, 2001 9:23 pm
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... My, my! Whatever happened to geodesics in Lorentzian 4-manifolds? To be ignorant is no great shame. To refuse to remedy that ignorance is otiose. The...