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January 12, 2012

"The scientific method is also a tool."

It is a tool for finding closer and closer approximations to the way parts of our universe work.
It can also be used to justify decisions about coercing others, from warfare to domestic regulation, and decisions about how to follow regulations. It can justify demands for money inside a hierarchy like government, and demands that funding for projects be refused by the government. It can justify political campaigns for taxation, and subsidy. The problem is, after you’ve done all those things with it, it rapidly becomes a poorer and poorer tool to find those approximations for how parts of our universe work. -- It’s the coverup, not the crime | Behind The Black

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 12, 2012 10:38 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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