Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Foster responds

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

> I dunno. He stuck an O-ring in ice water and it fell apart, showing
how
> shoddy NASA's efforts had been, while refusing (in his curmudgeonly
way) to
> play ball with the bureaucrats. That's clearly not a full-scale
analysis of
> what went wrong, but it is a piece of the picture.
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Yup.

>
> I still don't know why Barbara Herrnstein-Smith and Bruno Latour are
> relevant to my quoting of Feynman.
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See my emoticon.
>
> Feynman's view that "Science is a way of trying not to fool
yourself" is
> obviously about what science _should be_, not what it actually _is_.
Just
> because many scientists do fool themselves does not undermine the
point.
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
"Segui il
> tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people
talk.)
> -- K. Marx, paraphrasing Dante A.
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I was not attempting to undermine your point. Nor Feynman's.

Ian