Re[2]: Kosov DU - New Scientist Report -Reply

[7pe@ornl.gov (Phil V. Egidi)]

Excellent point - Helen Caldicott spoke of this same type of self-truth at
her low-level radioactive symposium in NYC last year.
The technical-types in the audiance winced at the thought, and those that
were "in touch with their inner selves" (my quote) thought it was the dawn
of a new day.

"Perception is reality" taken to a new level.  

Phil Egidi
ORNL/GJ
7pe@ornl.gov


At 10:02 AM 6/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Eric,
>
>Excellent points!  The problem with our friends at the "New Scientist"
>may stem from the same font of situational ethic that currently
>plagues many of our institutions of higher learning and may be
>affecting those entering the scientific fields where they choose to
>call themselves scientists, but have no real sense of the "scientific
>method."
>
>Many universities today are teaching our students that the truth is
>"what you believe it to be."  Principles of universality are passe` and
>rejected by "new and enlightened methods of finding your own
>truth."
>
>Check into what's being taught at many colleges across the country.
> You might be troubled by what you find.  Imagine a generation from
>now in the LNTH debate where it's not a matter of what you can
>prove, but we you "believe" the truth to be.
>


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