tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post6016095316710267236..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Perils of Public SociologyPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-23604431104469983902007-11-01T03:16:00.000+00:002007-11-01T03:16:00.000+00:00Why not major in something as labor studies? That...Why not major in something as labor studies? That would be activist oriented, without worrying about your definition.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-64954636871591472462007-10-31T13:51:00.000+00:002007-10-31T13:51:00.000+00:00If ID was about rigorously tested hypotheses, I do...If ID was about rigorously tested hypotheses, I don't think there'd be quite so much fuss about it. As it is, the ID people act in bad faith and play to the gallery, and someone who can't spot that isn't competent to be doing something called "science studies".<BR/><BR/>E.g. the first time I read a Dembski paper was weirdly unsettling. This was before I realised who/what he was, and so thought it a normal paper about quantitative measures of information. It started off quite typically, but then there was this sense of things being concealed rather than disclosed, and it gradually became clear that it wasn't going to do anything that it had started out claiming; then the topic switched to evolution and it became obvious what was going on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-27875981761179961702007-10-31T11:20:00.000+00:002007-10-31T11:20:00.000+00:00Yep, it's the same guy.He was asked about it and t...Yep, it's the same guy.<BR/><BR/>He was asked about it and tried to clarify his position. The way he presented it was it should be treated as a scientific hypothesis like any other and be rigorously tested, which wouldn't necessarily make the fundie ID fanatics particularly happy.<BR/><BR/>Another point he made about this was that because he is a tenured academic, he can make controversial interventions of this character, whereas it would be career suicide for someone lower down on the pecking order.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-3344183585161372512007-10-31T11:02:00.000+00:002007-10-31T11:02:00.000+00:00This is Steve Fuller the intelligent design advoca...This is Steve Fuller the intelligent design advocate, yes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com