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     Often  young  people in early adolescence lose  their
interest  in science and mathematics because they come  to
recognize  that  scientists  who  embody  the   scientific
paradigm are not fully honest about their ideals,  values,
attitudes, assumptions and goals.  The traditions of being
value neutral, objective, quantitative,  computational and
in   control---are   recognized   as   being   incoherent,
misleading, disintegrative and so lacking in integrity.

     Young adolescents may not be able to articulate their
fears  of personal and communal disintegration---but  they
have  reliable instincts when it comes to avoiding  people
who pretend to be value-neutral when they are not.

     Compulsively  objective scientists are unable to talk
about their reflexive experiences, traditions, values, and
behaviors---for  compulsive  objectivity demands that  all
acknowledged realities be objective realities.   Not being
able  to talk about reflexive realities goes hand in glove
with   not  being  able  to  be  honest  about   reflexive
realities.    Wise  adolescents  avoid  people  whom  they
perceive   unable  to  be  honest  about  their  reflexive
experiences;   for  they  are  are  recognized  as   being
dangerous  people  to be around---especially if  they  are
admired  and  supported by people who are blind  to  their
lack of integrity.

     Compulsively     objective   scientist   cannot   ask
objective  questions  and  thereby learn why  it  is  that
adolescents  become  aversive  to  compulsively  objective
scientists---for   such    questions   miss   the   point.
Neither    can    they   ask  reflexive    questions---for
reflexive  questions  are  taboo.  Compulsively  objective
scientists are thus alienated  from the truths which  they
need to apprehend.

     Compulsively  objective scientists need to learn what
they  need  to  do to become free  of  their  compulsions.
They need to recognize that they are not free of bias, not
free to know the truth about their reflexive  experiences,
and not free to be in dialogue with people who do know the
truth  about  their reflexive experiences.   They need  to
acknowledge   that   the paradigm  which  leads  them   to
continue      to    be     compulsively     objective---is
tragically dysfunctional,  and   leads  to  personal   and
communal disintegration.

     The  above considerations are especially relevant  in
the  case of young women considering  science  professions
which are most dominated by compulsively objective  men---
who  are  unable  to talk about how they  respond  to  the
presence of attractive females who are free to acknowledge
and talk about their reflexive experiences.

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