Postby Technomancer » Sat May 27, 2006 3:36 am
Sweet Mercury wrote:Blogs can be interesting, but I prefer to read op/ed's by educated, credible journalists and professionals (some of whom have blogs themselves.)
Well yeah, all of the blogs I've listed are written by those who are professionally involved in their subject. The sole exception is Carl Zimmer's blog "The Loom", although he himself is a professional science writer.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov