Re: Psych 101 - Reward criminals and you get more crime!
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Posted by Philip Carl Salzman in NP on 10:36:38 2007/12/22
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Re: Letter to PM Harper - Let Arab 'allies' fund PA, not us posted by Dr Joseph Alexander Norland
Oh, the humanities
National Post Published: Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Re: Lex Luthor [Loves] Superman, Robert Fulford, Oct. 13.
The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and its supporters, including myself, might be more successful in convincing the public of the value of funding research in the social science and humanities if these fields were not permeated with political advocacy from one end, often an extreme end, of the political spectrum.
Too many academics in the social sciences and humanities adhere to philosophies that deny the existence of truth, and laud, instead, extreme relativism. For example, so-called "science studies" devotes itself to debunking science, while anthropology insists that head-hunting and witchcraft are as meaningful and legitimate cultural constructions as libraries and parliamentary democracy.
For these professors, the search for knowledge is no longer considered valid, and has been cast aside in favour of extremist political advocacy. Relativism, however, is not extended to our own societies in the West, which are deemed to be culturally corrupt and the cause of all the world's troubles.
But please keep sending us money.
Philip Carl Salzman, professor of anthropology, McGill University, Montreal.
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