RE: virus: Re:[Fwd: Re: memes at the meme site]
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:18:33 +0100
> Nathaniel Hall[SMTP:natehall@lgcy.com] wrote:
>
> Richard Brodie wrote:
> >
> > The main blind spot is that it is difficult for the scientist to
> experience
> > mysticism and thus study it. This tends to make scientists believe
> they are
> > lone, rational minds perceiving an objective reality. It is hard for
> one
> > with such an operating mode to break out of its box.
> >
> Its hardly a blind spot to see something which is'nt there. One can
> make up any bogus belief one wants to but science demands proof!
> The Nateman
>
Does science say, if you can't prove it, you can't use it,
or is that scientism I'm thinking of?
Robin