tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post5283923012160610780..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: A Periodic Problem in the History of Sciencemichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-23757276718867129562019-11-06T14:34:26.395-08:002019-11-06T14:34:26.395-08:00I hope all goes well. Perhaps when I finish readin...I hope all goes well. Perhaps when I finish reading and commenting on all of your blogs you will write new ones. Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-53228040695945194762011-08-02T13:18:10.743-07:002011-08-02T13:18:10.743-07:00@Rev: I think some of RAW has wormed its way into ...@Rev: I think some of RAW has wormed its way into a few shelves on my chromosomes, and it's maybe something of a "saving grace"?<br /><br />I'm glad you made those connections, and I'm gratified to have a few very insightful readers.<br /><br />Further: RAW still seems in the avant in pointing out dogmatic attitudes among some in the scientific community. "The Citadel"<br /><br />The millennia of rifts between mystics and institutionalists is covered in a different but interesting way in the work of sociologist Peter Berger. <br /><br />All of this seems isomorphic to the tensions between the Few neophiles and the Many neophobes.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-59622476644570527642011-08-02T08:51:24.007-07:002011-08-02T08:51:24.007-07:00Michael, this post reminds me of a chapter in RAW&...Michael, this post reminds me of a chapter in RAW's *Right Where You are Sitting Now* where he compares the scientific community's approach to to parapsychology to their earlier denial of the existence of meteorites. It also makes me think of the tension in almost every religious tradition between the mystics and the institutionalists, both of whom make very real contributions based on the contexts of the times and circumstances.Thom Fooleryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12818320706747408688noreply@blogger.com