tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post3935771183285069034..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: The moveable feast of madnessAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-87535807356845634122010-01-28T14:37:57.389-05:002010-01-28T14:37:57.389-05:00And I'm glad reporters "eat it up" s...And I'm glad reporters "eat it up" so that more people can learn about it who never got the chance to before.Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-58279538481394850552010-01-28T14:11:43.715-05:002010-01-28T14:11:43.715-05:00I was under the impression that the news associate...I was under the impression that the news associated with this guy's book was about how the drug companies were involved. <br /><br />Which maybe explains why nobody cared about this until now... now there's lots and lots of money involved in this issue.Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-21835227423787591772010-01-28T13:23:18.954-05:002010-01-28T13:23:18.954-05:00Well, there's Santayana's aphorism that th...Well, there's Santayana's aphorism that those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.<br /><br />When you've been in science for a few more years, and/or read its history, you'll see how much breathless rediscovery there is of things well known, for the right reasons....sometimes deeply into the past.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-24215140493769730152010-01-28T13:12:25.536-05:002010-01-28T13:12:25.536-05:00I couldn't possibly have learned everything in...I couldn't possibly have learned everything in my formal education so things I didn't learn will always be news to me, no matter how good my professors were or how diligent a student I was. I think that recycling news is VERY important for this very reason. Learning is a lifelong process that occurs out-of-step with the same process experienced by all others.Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-603153143041819202010-01-26T13:03:35.392-05:002010-01-26T13:03:35.392-05:00And, RBH, your comment shows yet again the importa...And, RBH, your comment shows yet again the importance of anthropology, when it's well done.Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-1273693024712372802010-01-26T12:12:55.535-05:002010-01-26T12:12:55.535-05:00Well, that's why we felt it was important to b...Well, that's why we felt it was important to blog on this story, which made front page international news (I first saw it in the International Herald Tribune (or whatever it's called) in Frankfurt airport on my way to Finland.<br /><br />This is not the only thing that people think is news because of a somewhat naive and parochial, and technologically driven, research system.<br /><br />The educational system is not doing us well, but the nature of the research establishment and its criteria for success reward rediscovery, and reporters of course eat it up.<br /><br />But there's also a serious message there about the kinds of ethnocentric determinism that is widespread in biomedical and behavioral science.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-81956934185944333952010-01-26T11:12:48.314-05:002010-01-26T11:12:48.314-05:00I was a little surprised at the "wow, new new...I was a little surprised at the "wow, new news" tone of the Times piece. We learned that back in undergrad in anthropology in the late 1960s.RBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562135000111792590noreply@blogger.com