Science & Homeopathy
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 10:57 am
Has Science Become 'One True Religion'?
by Amir Cassam
Key words: Kuhn's paradigm; memory of water; positivism; Galileo:
Feyerabend's hero; Copernican versus Ptolemaic system; Karl Popper's
falsifiability theory and his major critics; genetically modified potatoes.
Abstract
The present paper describes the authoritarian nature of modern science,
especially since the Second World War, and attempts to refute the negative
claims made about homeopathy by an important segment of the medico-
scientific establishment, in the light of the works of Paul Feyerabend,
Thomas Kuhn and Ashish Nandy. At the same time, in view of its relevance to
the subject matter, Karl Popper's conclusions on the criterion of the
scientific status of a theory, and responses of some of his major critics
are also discussed.
See:
http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/journal/art_8_print.htm
Dave Hartley
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284
by Amir Cassam
Key words: Kuhn's paradigm; memory of water; positivism; Galileo:
Feyerabend's hero; Copernican versus Ptolemaic system; Karl Popper's
falsifiability theory and his major critics; genetically modified potatoes.
Abstract
The present paper describes the authoritarian nature of modern science,
especially since the Second World War, and attempts to refute the negative
claims made about homeopathy by an important segment of the medico-
scientific establishment, in the light of the works of Paul Feyerabend,
Thomas Kuhn and Ashish Nandy. At the same time, in view of its relevance to
the subject matter, Karl Popper's conclusions on the criterion of the
scientific status of a theory, and responses of some of his major critics
are also discussed.
See:
http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/journal/art_8_print.htm
Dave Hartley
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284