Word: scientistic
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Huntington is currently director of the Center International Affairs and is also president of the American Political Science Association. He was formerly chairman of the Government Department at Harvard. According to the Social Sciences Citation Index 1981-1985, he is the most quoted political scientist in the field of International Relations. Some of his books are required reading in some political science courses in several universities (for instance Yale). Beyond the academic world, he has also consulted for the State Department and the CIA. From 1966 to 1969, he chaired the Vietnamese subcommittee of the U.S. government's Southeast Asia...
Insiders like Putnam have been able to see that report. The availability of the work should be automatic, no questions asked. When a scientist reports on an experiment, or empirical conclusions, or a proof of a theorem, it is a standard of science that one is entitled to have the data on which the conclusions have been based, and a complete version of the paper. I wrote to the chairman of Class V to ask if he, or Class V, condones the failure to provide me with the material I requested from Huntington about his State Department Report...
...article, that Huntington is"avowedly patriotic." The quality of scientificdoings does not depend on their being "patriotic" buton the factual documentation and accuracy.Huntington gives evidence that he confuses thetwo. For instance, when writing about TheSoldier and the State (one of the books uponwhich his reputation as a political scientist isbased), and its reception in the 1970s, he states:"Some indications of this trend in the directionof a more conservative realism compatible with theprofessional military outlook were brieflysketched in the final chapter of The Soldierand the State. Indeed, the publication ofThe Soldier and the State, with itsunabashed defense of the professional...
Some social scientists of the Academy, inanswer to the critics, have tried to make a casethat "ambiguity" is inherent in the socialsciences. For example, an anonymous member ofClass V told the Harvard Crimson reporter(13 March) that the critiques of Huntington's workas pseudo-science by hard scientists in theAcademy reflect their psychological inability toaccept ambiguity. "I don't know that any socialscientist would meet their standards. They arepsychologically angered by it. They are people whowant certainty," the member is quoted as saying."They have no tolerance for ambiguity." Whoeverthe member was, his statement is very similar tothe statement...
...Harvard economics professor has been named the first social scientist to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) award worth $500,000 over three years, foundation officials announced earlier this week...