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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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2010-02-20
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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 fun ding 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 sucas "The Flight from Science and Reason", held in New: York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of Misinformation", which assembled last June near Buffalo.
Ami-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 de creased funding for basic research.
Few would dispute that the term applies to the unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return toe 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 Stan ford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the zone 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 the tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened."
The author’s attitude toward the issue of "science vs. anti-science" is ______.
选项
A、impartial
B、subjective
C、biased
D、perplexed
答案
A
解析
该题问:作者对“科学与反科学”这个争论的态度是怎样的?通过阅读全文,作者对科学与反科学的争论持的是公正的、不偏不倚的态度,没有表明主观意图。B项意为“主观的”;C项意为“有偏见的”;D项意为“困+惑的”。B、C、D三项均可排除。故A项为正确答案。
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