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["Emily A. Noble" <guinep@theriver.com>]

Title: Re: Why ain't Pc more popular (was Re: Lawn Obsession...Ortho products

Try looking at NEW SCIENTIST (UK).....the April 22, 2000 issue had 2 or 3 articles on Creationism and one (have not read it) commented with headlines about fundamentalism among scientists. NEW SCIENTIST can be refreshing on occasion and bring to the public eye issues not usually reaching the newspapers or other media.
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>From: German Poleo <gpoleo@agctr.lsu.edu>
>To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Why ain't Pc more popular (was Re: Lawn Obsession...Ortho products
>Date: Thu, Jun 1, 2000, 11:06 AM
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>Hi
>I have been in the academy type of environment for more than 10 years, and I can tell
>you that one of the most difficult people to change are Scientist. Although science
>should not be dogmatic by definition, is the place where you find more opposition to
>new ideas.
>
>It is true that this counterculture thing that was suggested before has also something
>to do with the opposition,
>One day I was talking with an agriculture professor and at some point I mention
>permaculture. His answer was ?? ohh yea this thing driven by a bunch of hippies??
>
>Scientist usually looks thing in a very narrow perspective, it is very difficult to
>find some one that integrate things and has a more holistic point of view. It is also
>true, at least for me, that science as many other human activities, has become just
>another job, people is doing it not for getting new information or developed new ideas
>or as a part of their lives but just as another way to support them self.
>I only have meet one or two scientist in my life that incorporate what they studies in
>they regular lives, and of coure they where the most interesting and smarter I have
>ever meet.
>
>German
>
> I want to apologies about my English and I hope I could express my thought in an
>organized and understandable way.
>
>
>
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