Conversation 2
How long had Kathy been away from home()
W: How beautiful! How long have you had it
M: Only two weeks.
W: How far have you been in it
M: Not too far. Just to a picnic.
Science has long since had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo’s 17th-century trifil’ for his rebelling belief the Catholic Church or poet William Black’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century~
Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics- but no longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked ’ antiscience’ in several books, notably Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.
Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from Science and Reason", held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the A
A. Environmentalists were blamed for antiscience in an essay
B. Politicians are not subject to the labeling of antiscience
C. The "more enlightened" tend to tag others as antiscience
D. Tagging environmentalists as "antiscience" is justifiable
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