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 %PUBLIC POLICY SCIENTISTS META REFLEXIVE RELATIONS 900514

     It is  important to develop  an  integrative   public
policy    regarding    scientists'     reflexive    META-:
relationships,   theories,   observations,    perceptions,
interpretations,  self talk,  explanations,  expectations,
experiments and manipulations.

     In  the  absence  of  expectations,  hypotheses   and
theories   there   can  be  no   meaningful   experimental
manipulations,  observations, perceptions, interpretations
and  explanations.   Objective research is not driven  and
guided   by   a  reality  which  is  independent  of   the
scientists'  engaged in the research.   Objective research
is  driven and guided by the ideas,   values,   attitudes,
personal/communal expectations, hypotheses and theories of
scientists   as  persons  who  are often  participants  in
their  community's dishonest addictive processes.

     We   cannot  honestly  seek  personal   and  communal
integrity  in  the  absence  of  seeking  to  develop   an
integrative public policy regarding scientists'  reflexive
work,   and  the  manner  in which  their  work  may  most
integratively be supported with public funds.

     Scientists'  work reflects back upon the   scientists
and upon the codependent public which supports their work.
There have been clear objective consequences to scientists
and  their supportive public due  to the "objective"  work
which scientists and their supportive engineers have done.
The  consequences  reflect  back upon the  scientists  and
supporters  in non-objective ways.  We may  point to  such
consequences   with  words/phrases  such as:  Arms   race,
missile   gap,   pollution,   energy  crisis,   population
explosion,   environmental crisis,  medical care for   the
terminally ill, science crisis in education, etc.

     The technocratic  society  is an  addictive   society
which   is  often  supportive  of  scientists  and   their
addictive  processes of dishonest manipulations of  truths
about themselves and others.   In an effort to maintain an
appearance  of integrity for their compulsively  objective
paradigm,  scientists  selectively  ignore  evidence about
personal  relationships/processes  which do not  fit  well
into  their  impersonal  theories.    Their  self-talk  is
reflexive talk which is not objective,  but is designed to
make  it  appear  that  they are  engaged  in  exclusively
objective behavior.  Scientists rarely participate in open
and   honest  dialogue  about  their   reflexive/addictive
processes,  and  how  those  processes  relate  to   their
professional work.   The consequence of this  avoidance of
reflexive   dialogue  is  that  scientists  are  not  well
informed  about  themselves  or  each  other  as  personal
participants  in the total community,  and so neither  are
their codependent supporters.

     To  understand scientists and how their work  relates
to   the   integration/disintegration   of   persons   and
communities,   we  need to examine carefully the  ways  in
which  scientists'   META-relationships and  META-theories
drive   and  guide  their  work.    Without  the  kind  of
understanding   which  may  come  from  such  a  reflexive
examination  we are doomed to participate  in  scientists'
disintegrative addictive processes.  Scientists' addictive
processes  are as deadly as are other addictive processes,
and  are funded with great amounts of public  respect  and
support.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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