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   %SCIENTISTS PRETENDING CONFLICTS ABSENT RESOLVED 891017

     Scientists  often pretend that the conflicts in which
they  are participants do not exist because scientists are
addicted  to the notion that objectivity is important  and
attainable   in   all  circumstances  which  are  of   any
importance to them.

     Conflicts between ideals and values are not objective
realities;   they are reflexive realities which cannot  be
analyzed, understood, predicted,  or controlled in keeping
with the paradigm of scientists.

     Technology  assessment does not deal  with  conflicts
among  ideals and values openly and honestly.   Technology
assessment  takes for granted a group of tacit assumptions
about  ideals  and values,  and goes through  a  technical
procedure  to  see what the unexamined ideals  and  values
imply  about technical procedures and how best to  fulfill
the  unexamined  ideals and values  through  technological
manipulations.    Technology   assessment  is  usually   a
technical procedure which participates in the  traditional
collusive  games  of  one  mutual self  deception  of  the
technical  experts  who are being paid to go  through  the
technical procedures by which to examine opportunities for
further technical procedures.

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