War on The Cult of Genius, The Cult of Theory, and The Cult of Not Biology

[aliothsan]

I started working on this post a loooooong time ago -- back in February of this year, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I wrote up about 4/5 of it, was called away, and forgot to ever return to it. So yes, the blog posts I'm linking to are several months out of date, and I'm sure this debate probably progressed quite nicely without me. But I'm

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[arujei]

At some point I was going to talk about that fourth salvo of yours, just from the humanities person's perspective.

But this is nice. Good job.

[aliothsan]

Please do make the fourth salvo. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

[aliothsan]

And, thanks.

[aliothsan]

Yeah, there's a lot of "science is soulless" out there. And it's true, in the sense that you have to subvert your ego to pick holes in your own methodology/conclusions, and invite others to do the same.

But the pursuit of knowledge, "scientific" or not, can be an overriding passion. To say nothing of the beauty of an equation, or a molecule, or a mechanism, or...

But I think I'm preaching to the converted here?

[aliothsan]

Well, the feeling you get when you see a really elegant construction is a lot like the feeling many people get when they see a really elegant/[insert other property here] equation, molecule, cell, what have you.