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     Many "pure"  scientists pride themselves on not being
technicians---people  who merely put to practical use  the
sophisticated findings of the pure scientists.   Such pure
scientists  regard themselves as asking more profound  and
basic questions than the technicians do.   The technicians
merely work out the details of the use of abstract laws of
science  which  the  purists  discover.    All  that   the
technician  does is implicit in the laws as discovered  by
the pure researcher,  so there is little creativity in the
activity of the technician.   This purist perspective even
goes  to  the extreme of the purist priding  himself  that
there  is no apparent practical use for the pure knowledge
he has discovered---perhaps implying no responsibility for
the consequences of such discovery, since the consequences
could not be anticipated and considered in the decision to
complete the research.

     Few  pure scientists are well trained as  historians,
philosophers,  theologians, psychologists,  psychiatrists,
sociologists,  anthropologists, linguists, etc.   For this
reason  few pure scientists can see the work of  the  pure
scientists with any overall perspective and clarity.  Most
pure   scientists   are  technicians  who  work  out   the
implications of  a  limited paradigm, a way of approaching
reality.    Pure  scientists  rarely  recognize  that  the
results of their efforts are  implicit in  the  attitudes,
feelings,  relational stance,   and assumptions which they
have thoughtlessly copied  from their mentor; the paradigm
within  which  they  work.    They do  not  examine  their
paradigm, they as technicians work out the implications of
the paradigm  through which they perceive all that they do
perceive.   In this way they are much like the technicians
who work out  the  utilitarian implications  of the "pure"
scientists --- who work out the perceptual implications of
the few people ---  who  have  the imagination,   courage,
perseverance,   and  contextual support  to  transcend the
dominant paradigms  of their mentors---mentors --- who are
profoundly  threatened  by  such  creativity and  lack  of
respect for the traditional ways.

     Pure  scientists  as technicians participate  in  the
professional collusions which inhibit creative persons who
are ready to create new paradigms ---  which  will  enable
people  to fulfill their personal potentials,  as well  as
their technical potentials.

                                                                                                                               
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