This-essay is a7807032.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %SCIENTIFIC BIASES 780703 The values which characterize the scientific subculture tend to introduce systematic biases into the way in which scientists approach situations. Scientists do not transcend biases by being scientific; they select a particular set of biases which are fruitful in specific types of situations---but destructive in other types of situations. For us to survive the scientific revolution we must learn to transcend the scientific biases. This means that we must in some sense become aware of the scientific biases. This will be hard to do so long as there is a tendency to worship scientists as magicians who can do all kinds of impossible tricks upon command. It will be hard to do so as long as scientists refuse to become aware of their biases, and of the situations in which their biases are dangerous. So long as scientific biases are passed from generation to generation without critical examination---so long will we be victims of our technocratic culture. The younger members of our culture are particularly qualified to carry out critical examinations of our scientists' biases. But to do so they must be protected from punishments inflicted by scientists who are too emotionally immature to endure a profound constructive criticism of their biases. Such criticisms will uncover embarrassing aspects of the scientists' lives and reveal how the biases are expressed in political self-serving behavior. Positions of power and influence and influence will be at stake. Reputations may be destroyed. The older scientists are likely to be fearful of profound critics who threaten their cherished fundamental assumptions. In fear they are likely to repress the critics in order to preserve the scientific status quo. In order to ensure that the scientific biases do not blind us to themselves, we will need to protect and augment our traditional guarantees of communication rights. Freedoms of verbal communication will need to be extended to broader freedoms of communication which involve non-verbal channels of communication. The kinds of analysis which will expose the biases of the scientists will involve non-verbal communication in essential ways. In the absence of guarantees of freedom of non-verbal communication, such analysis will be risky business. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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