Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00270)

One might compare what brian-muehlbach.com has written of late on 
this forum with the following by Dr. Marcello Truzzi, a sociologist 
and one of the founders of CSICOP: 

"There are some myths about science and scientists that need to be 
dispelled. Science gets mistaken as a body of knowledge for its 
method. Scientists are regarded as having superhuman abilities of 
rationality and objectivity. Many studies in the psychology of 
science, however, indicate that scientists are at least as dogmatic 
and authoritarian, at least as foolish and illogical as everybody 
else, including when they do science. In one study on falsifiability, 
an experiment was described, an hypothesis was given to the 
participants, the results were stated, and the test was to see 
whether the participants would say, 'This falsifies the hypothesis'. 
The results indicated denial, since most of the scientists refused to 
falsify their hypotheses, sticking with them despite a lack of 
evidence! Strangely, clergymen were much more frequent in recognizing 
that the hypotheses were false."
[ Quoted from: http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/truzzi.html ]

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm
"...Contrast alone can enable us to appreciate things at
their right value; and unless a judge compares notes and
hears both sides he can hardly come to a correct decision."
H.P. Blavatsky. The Theosophist, July, 1881, p. 218.