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 %SCIENTIST STUDY HUMAN RELATION PARTICIPANT OBJECT+920904
     %DUAL SELF REFLEXIVE ROLES REDIRECT GUIDE TALK+920904
  %ADDICTIVE CONTROL MANIPULATION SCIENTIST REFLECT 920905

     Each political persuasion,  religious group,  nation,
profession,  and paradigm  usually  has its own compulsive
members  who are fundamentalist fanatics who carry one  or
more of the views  of  their group to compulsive/fanatical
extremes in their  efforts to perfectly fulfill the ideals
and values of their group.

     Scientists  include among themselves people  who  are
compulsively fanatical about:  objectivity,   measurement,
mathematics,  analysis,  manipulations,  control,  theory,
repeatability,  consensus,     verification,    certainty,
generality, universality,  etc. Balanced interest  in each
such focus  of attention  has its appropriate place,   but
some  scientists  carry  their  interest in some or all of
such foci into places where  they  are quite inappropriate
and dysfunctional;  believing that one or more of the foci
somehow have completely general and universal relevance to
all kinds of places, situations and relationships. We will
here refer to such people as COMPULSIVE SCIENTISTS because
of  their  compulsive  focus  upon  one  or  more  of  the
traditional foci of scientists' interests.

     COMPULSIVE  SCIENTISTS  find it nearly impossible  to
deal  wisely  with human dilemmas which require quiet  and
honest reflection upon:  themselves,   their own  personal
situations, their own  failures and mistakes,   their  own
ideals  and  values;   and  their  own  bodies,  feelings,
desires, fears and intimate relationships. Such reflection
is reflexive  and:   not-objective,  not-measurable,  not-
mathematical,   not-analytical,    not-manipulative,  not-
controllable,   not-theoretical,   not-repeatable,    not-
consensual,     not-verifiable,    not-certain,       not-
generalizable,  and not-universal.  Such honest reflection
fails most of the tests for scientific respectability; and
so if  engaged  in would undermine scientists'  ability to
reflect favorably upon themselves.  Since  they  prefer to
reflect  favorably upon  themselves,  they avoid behaviors
which  will undermine their ability to  reflect  favorably
upon  themselves.   COMPULSIVE SCIENTISTS  pretend  to  be
objective  all  of the time.  They  are  not  honest  with
themselves, and so cannot act wisely.

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