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Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th-century trial for his rebell
Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th-century trial for his rebell
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2022-06-29
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Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th-century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The
schism
between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century.
Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics— but no longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked "anti-science" in several books, notably Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.
Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from Science and Reason," held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of (Mis) information," which assembled last June near Buffalo.
Anti-science clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned science’s objectivity. Sagan is more concerned with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.
A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
Some people scorn science and long for return to a pre-technological Utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.
The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics. The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
Indeed, some observers fear that the anti-science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless. "The term ’anti-science’ can lump together too many, quite different things," notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti-Science. "They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened."
The word "schism" (Line 6, Para. 1) in the context probably means________.
选项
A、cooperation
B、dissatisfaction
C、separation
D、contempt
答案
C
解析
本题属于猜词题,题干明确给出了段落位置,要根据上下文判断。第一段讲的是科学和文化领域的关系不好,选项A正反混淆。故排除,而选项B、C、D均符合这个主题,但第二段强调科学家写了两本书反攻(attack),第三段写科学的捍卫者们开了两个会议表达了他们的担忧,因此可以看出科学和文化领域关系不好的确切表现形式是:分歧越来越深。因此选项C概括全面,为最佳选项。第一段:科学与文化的其他领域的关系一直不好,科学家被批评。
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