{Science and Stupidity}[1st July 1988]

[Redbook5:194-196][19880701.0000]{Science and Stupidity}[1st July 1988]

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I suppose it is partly in consequence [sic] of the rejection of my article on p148* by New Scientist – with the inappropriate hope** that I might be able to publish it elsewhere – that I see science as potentially riding for a fall.

Science is an activity with strong inner and outer circle tendencies – unlike many other human activities, such as business. Being naturally M~ hemisphere (despite the importance of Innovation/Creation in the overall Inner Circle process), its chief gifts, virtues and vices are to be found there.

Its chief gifts are (per Inner Circle) Knowledge, Righteousness, Fear of the Lord (cf. Newton, Einstein). Its chief Virtues are Justice (or Balance, Fairmindedness), Faith, Prudence. Its chief Vices are Lust, Avarice and Pride. These three triplets are all in the (Inner Circle) order U~, M~, S~, reflecting, partly at least, the broad and overlapping division of Science into Craftsmen/Mechanics, Technicians/Technologists, and Research Scientists/Theoreticians (In the second and third of these pairs, the first title belongs partly to the previous pair).

*[[[Redbook5:148A-D][19880611:0000]{The Great Divide}[11^th June 1988]] p148A-D]

**[In the rejection note, presumably]

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