Interesting comments, Rod!
Rod Welch wrote:
>
> Jack,
>
> Genetic variability and successful science explain some of the
> variance in the
> interest and skills for science. Not everyone is cut out for the
> scientific
> method of plan, perform, report that entails a lot of failure before
> stumbling
> onto something useful while looking for something else. The emotional
> toll of
> rigorous work weeds out many, and some of us do not have the innate
> cognitive
> tools needed for productive scientific work, just as we lack the
> ability to dunk
> a basketball, or run the 100 in 9 flat, carry a tune make a speech,
> etc.
> Scientific discoveries and deployment through the market place has
> greatly
> expanded opportunities for people to work outside pure science and
> still
> contribute significantly to advance civilization through the magic of
> complimentary forces.
>
> Decrying ignorance about science may therefore be misplaced, since
> good science
> depends heavily on infrastructure created by non-science, and good
> infrastructure, like good science, requires focus to do well the work
> at hand,
> rather than be a jack-of-all-trades, a la Adam Smith. In other words,
> science
> may be moving ahead, in part, because a lot of people ignore it.
>
> Rod
>
> Jack Park wrote:
> >
> > http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep01/reviews.asp
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "The United States by any conceivable measure has the finest
> scientists in
> > the world. But the rest of the population, by any rational standard,
> is
> > abysmally ignorant of science, mathematics and all things technical.
> That
> > is the paradox of scientific elites and scientific illiterates: how
> can the
> > same system of education that produced all those brilliant
> scientists also
> > have produced all that ignorance?
> > The situation is not merely paradoxical; it's downright perilous.We
> face an
> > era that promises ever accelerating technological change in every
> aspect of
> > our lives, while at the same time the very survival of our
> civilization may
> > depend on our ability to make wise decisions about how to manage our
> > resources, our climate and our conflicts. In the next century, we
> will need
> > to be able to deal confidently with technical issues, and a
> responsible
> > electorate will need to have some reasonable mastery of how the
> world works. "
> >
> > There's more...
> >
> > The electorate. Now, there's an OHS/DKR usecase if there ever was
> one...
> > Cheers
> > Jack
> >
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