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Feb. 27th, 2007 12:40 pmI'm lurking at the local library. The *(&%)*^% nanny software just blocked three completely innocent online word counter sites in a row.
Anyway, I jumped on because I wanted to point to a couple of articles in New Scientist. (The full articles aren't available at the NS Web site unless you're a subscriber.)
One is about the lack of research into torture, especially the medical and psychological aftermath. "It's impossible to get funding," says a Harvard researcher.
( Read more... )
A completely unrelated book review made challenging points about the re-arisen conflict between religion - specifically, monotheism - and science.( Read more... ) The reviewer, John Gray, comments: "Any belief system in which human agency is central is bound to be at odds with what Edis describes as the 'radically unanthropomorphic' world view suggested by contemporary science... The true conflict may not be between science and religion, but between science and monotheist faiths in which humans have a privileged place in the world."
Anyway, I jumped on because I wanted to point to a couple of articles in New Scientist. (The full articles aren't available at the NS Web site unless you're a subscriber.)
One is about the lack of research into torture, especially the medical and psychological aftermath. "It's impossible to get funding," says a Harvard researcher.
( Read more... )A completely unrelated book review made challenging points about the re-arisen conflict between religion - specifically, monotheism - and science.
( Read more... ) The reviewer, John Gray, comments: "Any belief system in which human agency is central is bound to be at odds with what Edis describes as the 'radically unanthropomorphic' world view suggested by contemporary science... The true conflict may not be between science and religion, but between science and monotheist faiths in which humans have a privileged place in the world."
