barry Wrote:

> However, the 'article' is riddled with such
> nonsense as As a result, India's earthquake
> prediction systems were steered away from
> scientific method towards 'Vedic' practices.
> Ignoring, for the moment, the veracity of the
> statemnt (for which the author provides no
> support), I was unware that there were any
> 'scientific' methods for predicting earthquakes.

Yes, this article was obviously written by a devotee of scientism, and, as I wrote above, I think that scientism works against science as much as anything the "enemies" of science can come up with.

> The author also spews this This injection of
> multiculturalism and relativism into science has
> not done any harm to privileged Westerners, who
> revert to real medicine the moment they get
> seriously ill. I guess being a playwright,
> columnist, journalist and friend of the likes of
> Chrissy Hitchens means an ignorance of the source
> of drugs such oncovin or why firms such Eli Lilly,
> W. R. Grace, Cargill all have investments in neem
> farms in India.

I think the idea that medicine is science (or even a science) is fallacious. This is another myth of scientism.

> I have no doubt that superstition can impede
> science, however, political hatchet jobs such this
> certainly don't further science.

I agree with you, except I would change "political hatchet jobs" to "proponents of scientism".