This is http://www.essayz.com/a8807061.htm         
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words.
{Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.}
==========================================================
     %ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF SCIENTISTS REFLEXIVE 880706

     To  have available accurate unbiased descriptions  of
scientists' work it is essential to have scientists engage
in  reflexive work dedicated to describing the  character,
value, nature, purpose, goal, ideals, ideas, etc. of their
work.  Such descriptions cannot be objective descriptions,
because the descriptions are essentially self-referential;
they cannot be scientific descriptions in the same way  in
which descriptions of inanimate objects are scientific.

Accurate unbiased descriptions of scientists'   work
can  not  be readily available so long as  the  scientific
community  regards  reflexive behavior as taboo  behavior.
Taboos entail a pattern of rejecting/alienating people who
violate the prohibitions of the taboos.   Taboos are  part
of  collusive games of mutual self deception;  e.g.,   the
collusion   which  pretends  that  it  is   possible   for
scientists to be objective in all their professional work,
and  that  non-objective  behavior is not  and  cannot  be
worthy of respect.

     The  transcendence  of  collusive  taboos  cannot  be
objective behavior for the people who are participants  in
and  supporters of the collusive taboos.   The process  of
becoming free from a prison cannot be objective  behavior.
The  process of thinking about escaping from prison cannot
be  objective  behavior.   Scientists cannot be  objective
about   escaping  from  the  prison  of  their  collusions
regarding objective behavior.   For scientists to dedicate
themselves  to  always being objective,   is  to  dedicate
themselves to staying in prison,  and pretending that they
are not in prison;  to perpetuate the collusion which says
that objectivity transcends all bias.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
==========================================================