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...Feyerabend agrees that objective reality is notknowable through science. He says of scientificresults, "What they have figured out is oneparticular response to their actions, and thereality that is behind this is laughing, 'Ha ha!They think they have found...
Philosopher Paull Karl Feyerabend, a former professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is quoted in Scientific American as saying, "Leading intellectuals with their zeal for objectivity...are criminals, not the liberators of mankind...
...statement by Feyerabend illustrates how emotionally charged some "anti-scientists" can be in trying to topple science from its pedestal...
...Though Feyerabend's comments may be rather extreme for an "anti-scientist," the sentiment has definitely worked its way into mainstream thought...
Many of the ideas championed by Brown,Feyerabend and Havel are part of the movement of"post-modernism...
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