From: Neal Blaikie (nrb@porterville.k12.ca.us)
Date: Wed May 09 2001 - 23:17:08 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> Ben Goertzel wrote:
> >
> > I don't actually know ANY social scientists who believe Margaret Mead's work
> > on Samoan sexual customs was accurate. And I know a LOT of social
> > scientists. Even radical feminist commies who worship Margarat Mead now
> > accept that this work was largely wrong.
>
> Okay. I accept this result. I still maintain that almost all the social
> research that shows up on Eurekalert appears to be politically correct
> crap,
Please define the term "politically correct crap." It doesn't seem very
scientific.
> but I suppose it's barely possible that the soft sciences aren't
> complete intellectual wastelands and that some of its members are slowly
> straggling into the light of the twenty-first century. If you want any
> more than that out of me, you'll have to actually show me a social
> scientist doing something right <grin>.
What would "something right" be in your estimation?
just curious,
Neal Blaikie
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