Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 13:44:42 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Sociobiology


malgosia askanas wrote:

>All this talk about what is natural reminds me of a discussion long ago
>on Usenet, in a psychology newsgroup.  Some guy claimed he had a computer
>program that helped alleviate depression.  Another guy launched a long attack
>against the first guy, demanding ever new "proofs" for this claim, and
>larding his demands with assertions that "science is like that".  Finally,
>another guy said "No, science is not like that.  _You_ are."  That's what
>I keep wanting to say to people arguing from "nature":  "Nature isn't like
>that.  _You_ are."


Ha! Or as Stephen Jay Gould put it, you can find an example in nature to
prove almost any point (kind of like citing Lenin for the orthodox).

Doug




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