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%SCIENTISTS AS SEDUCERS 791219
Scientists who seek to humanize science often are
seducers who introduce their unsuspecting beneficiaries to
the professional collusions which imprison scientists and
keep them from experiencing the full range of personal
relationships. The scientists who seeks to make
scientific knowledge understandable to the ordinary
citizen --- in the process seduces the citizen to
internalize the most basic assumptions and biases which
separate scientists from the rest of the population. The
citizen's new perceptions are bought at a great price. How
much they enjoy the seduction is no measure of how helpful
it is to them as persons.
Scientists often seduce non-scientists into accepting
the notion that all important processes can be explained
by scientists, that scientific laws explain all phenomena
in all times and places. It follows as a corollary that
love is not important, because scientists can not explain
love in its fullness. Those who regard love as
unimportant will not be seduced by lovers who do not
respect scientists, thus scientists' seductions are a
protection against other kinds of seduction.
Scientists seduce people through the sweet fruits of
their research, even though as pure scientists they
disdain the process of cultivating the use of those
fruits. They pay lip service to the sweetness of the
fruits, but will not cultivate them, because it is beneath
them to do so. They justify their works by the fruits of
technological research and development, but do not relate
their efforts to human needs in any personal way. As are
many seducers, they are not fully open and honest about
what they have to offer.
Science teachers seduce emotionally immature students
who have a deep need for a sense of security,
invulnerability, certainty and complete understanding.
They offer substitutes for the warmth of human
understanding and affection --- which many students have
not enjoyed. Thus they attract to their laboratories many
disturbed students who do not have a well balanced
personal development, and give to those disturbed students
the tools which may be used for whatever purpose their
confused motivations guide them to follow. Then they
disclaim responsibility for the results. They say they
have no control over the behavior of the students that
they seduce. Science is value neutral because it is not
personal. Persons are not value neutral. Students need
to think things through for themselves!
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