From: lambdac-AT-globalserve.net Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:46:35 -0500 Subject: 2. Science, which science? Official science 2. Science, which science? Official science Three sciences: official science (1) The official science - science that exhibits the religious nature of its bias: science in the service of the State, in the service of a Church, and now science as mass-media digest. A line to follow in the steps of giants: this is how things are, do not question it. All terms are inverted. The right to lifers: the word life on their lips stands for death, survival; the word love, stands for hatred and fanaticism - saving the unborn from an 'holocaust'; the word holocaust becomes a way of barring the free choice of others to believe and do differently; the word creation a mockery of the creative powers of the physical, energetic and biological Aether. Or the Galloists: steal Montagnier's retrovirus; there will be a vaccine for AIDS, sempre maņana; HIV causes the disease; HIV infection is fatal; safe sex prevents AIDS; homosexuality is a risky life-style. Or the relativists: can't believe god plays with dice, but Time does not exist, only fragments of Time and parallel universes; can't believe there is a massfree aether, but SpaceTime has geometric properties; can't believe the universe is running down, but the anthropic principle will assure us we had to be here, bang'cruncha (enigma style: why are we here?); can't understand gravity, but are sure of anti-matter. Touch their dogmas and you will be running for cover. Question their authority, and the herd instinct will sniff you out as if your body had not yet been snatched. Ask them how does it work - how is abortion murder?, how is AIDS caused by HIV?, how is the universe running down?, how are Koch's postulates proven?, how does the survivalist mechanism of evolution work?, and you will be walled off. Muzzled by the media. Shunned by your peers. Expelled from the academia. Laughed at by the herds of little men and little women. Your grants will be cut. Your legs chopped off. They will drag you on the streets in effigy, if you were once their hero. You will hear whispers behind your back. Official science is the continuation of the nihilist labour of negative religion by other means: fear and faith become replaced by a reason divorced from its senses. Science of the dead, science of the eviscerated, science as potestas. It culls the authority of reason from an irrational faith in reason: "but reason is only an instrument, and Descartes was superficial" (BGE, 191). The religion of State is replaced by the religion of science: science as the continuation of metaphysics: "science as the exactest humanizing of things that is possible" (GS, 112). Official science is science of the true. Always in search of a power for truth. Science, whose ideals are "unconsciously influenced by decadence" (WP, #53). Science as an evolved form of sickness: the rationalistic disparagement of nature. Lambda C --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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