Word: reductionists
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...members simplistically blaming everyone from Marilyn Manson to the National Rifle Association for the boys’ lethal actions. Even Michael Moore’s wry and often insightful investigation of the tragedy, last year’s Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine, ultimately descended into a disappointingly reductionist argument which seemed to place personal blame for Columbine on actor and NRA president Charlton Heston...
After the memo was leaked to the Economist, Lutzenberger wrote Summers, “Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane...Your thoughts [provide] a concrete example of the unbelievable alienation, reductionist thinking, social ruthlessness and the arrogant ignorance of many conventional ‘economists’ concerning the nature of the world we live...
Molecular biology takes a reductionist approach to living things, breaking them down into their smallest moving parts...
Laura Garwin ’77, director of research affairs for the Bauer Center, says the more comprehensive approach to understanding how DNA directs the functions of the cell should not overshadow the importance of the reductionist approach used so successfully by Watson and Crick, and thousands of others...
...revolution that started in 1953 was a reductionist revolution,” she says. “And that was a success because it’s only by understanding what’s going on at a fundamental level that you can understand what’s truly going...