<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2448.0"> <TITLE>RE: definitions</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> > I claim science is ideologically neutral. In fact, that's what science > means. No, neutrality is what science *claims.*  I think of science as functioning like a searchlight -- providing piercing, albeit narrowly focused, illumination of the subjects it focuses on while leaving the rest of existence in darkness.  The question of what you focus that searchlight on often requires ideologically based judgments. Carl </BODY> </HTML>