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NL888 Posted 14 years ago
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Dubbed what?
Does "Langmuir dubbed this deviation from the principles of the scientific method “pathological science,” " mean:
this deviation from the principles of the scientific method is named by Langmuir as “pathological science” (that is, the “science of things that aren’t so.”) ?
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Chemistry Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir related in a landmark 1953 speech his visit to the laboratory of J.B. Rhine at Duke University, where Rhine was claiming results of ESP experiments that could not be predicted by chance, and which he ascribed to psychic phenomena. Langmuir discovered that Rhine was only selectively counting the data in his experiments, omitting the results from those he believed were guessing in order to humiliate him.
The evidence? Rhine felt that some of the scores were too low to have occurred by chance, and that it would, therefore, actually be misleading to include them.
Langmuir dubbed this deviation from the principles of the scientific method “pathological science,” the “science of things that aren’t so.”
this deviation from the principles of the scientific method is named by Langmuir as “pathological science” (that is, the “science of things that aren’t so.”) ?
Context:
Chemistry Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir related in a landmark 1953 speech his visit to the laboratory of J.B. Rhine at Duke University, where Rhine was claiming results of ESP experiments that could not be predicted by chance, and which he ascribed to psychic phenomena. Langmuir discovered that Rhine was only selectively counting the data in his experiments, omitting the results from those he believed were guessing in order to humiliate him.
The evidence? Rhine felt that some of the scores were too low to have occurred by chance, and that it would, therefore, actually be misleading to include them.
Langmuir dubbed this deviation from the principles of the scientific method “pathological science,” the “science of things that aren’t so.”
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NL888Does "Langmuir dubbed this deviation from the principles of the scientific method “pathological science,” " mean:this deviation from the principles of the scientific method is named by Langmuir as “pathological science” (that is, the “science of things that aren’t so.”) ?Yes.
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Hi
It is a metaphor
When a King or Queen chooses a knight, they place the blade of a sword on the knight's left and right shoulders and give him a new name. From now on, they are Sir Henry instead of Henry Smith. This is called 'dubbing'
So, yes, when Langmuir says that ESP is not 'science', but 'pathological science', he is giving it a new name. He is dubbing it
It is a metaphor
When a King or Queen chooses a knight, they place the blade of a sword on the knight's left and right shoulders and give him a new name. From now on, they are Sir Henry instead of Henry Smith. This is called 'dubbing'
So, yes, when Langmuir says that ESP is not 'science', but 'pathological science', he is giving it a new name. He is dubbing it
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Thank you both.
Pathological science = morbid science = unhealthy science?
The science of things that aren't so = the science about things that are not true?
Pathological science = morbid science = unhealthy science?
The science of things that aren't so = the science about things that are not true?
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Yes, I would say that both things go together:
Pathological science: it is diseased - it has grown into or become an unhealthy thing. The method no longer gives the right answer (this would be so if Rhine was selecting results for his conclusion)
And this leads to a science that verifies false results: a science of things that aren't so
Dave
Yes, I would say that both things go together:
Pathological science: it is diseased - it has grown into or become an unhealthy thing. The method no longer gives the right answer (this would be so if Rhine was selecting results for his conclusion)
And this leads to a science that verifies false results: a science of things that aren't so
Dave
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