There is something to this, but "big, reified, and anally retentive science" is what science is. "Science" is not synonymous with "figuring stuff out."
--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> I know lotsa scientists... and I like this. Big,
> riefied, anally
> inductivist science is a relatively new human invention...
> not science as
> babies do it, careful, systematic, multimethodological and
> relational praxis
> - and, nodding to Merton (against my will), babies are
> surprisingly
> transparent and communalist (and they laugh more than most
> big-S
> scientists.)
>
> homo faber = homo sciencicus?
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