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PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION BY SOME SCIENTISTS

     "History teaches us that virtually all progress in science and medicine has been accomplished as a result of the courageous efforts of those members of the profession willing to pursue their theories  in the face of tremendous odds despite the criticism of fellow practitioners. Copernicus was thought to be a heretic when he theorized that the earth was not the center of the universe. Banishment and prison was the reward for discovery that the world was round. Pasteur was ridiculed for his theory that unseen organisms caused infection. Freud met only resistance and derision in pioneering the field of psychiatry. In our own era chiropractic treatment has been slow in receiving the approval of the other professions of the healing arts. We can only wonder what would have been the condition of the world today and the field of medicine in particular had those in the midstream of their profession been permitted to  prohibit continued treatment and therapy and impede progress in those and other fields of science and the healing arts."

Rogers v. State Board of Medical Examiners, 71 So. 2^d 1037 (Fla. App. 1979) aff’d, 387 So.2^d 937

MIND-INTELLIGENCE as a BASIS for a SCIENTIFIC MODEL
or CAUSATIVE FACTOR

     "I will point out one little odd thing about the whole field of science; practically every aspect as far as I know. Science deals with models and metaphors; you deduce some conclusions from it, you may make some predictions, you may test those out and so on. Your allowed to use various kinds of metaphors and still get tenure and research contracts and all those kinds of things. You can say that in my experience reality is very much like a lot of small particles, or like a wave phenomenon, or you may even use some more holistic models and you may talk about an ecological community, or an organism, or even Gaia. There’s only one kind of metaphor that your not allowed to use; that's taboo. That is to say that in my experience reality is very much like the consciousness of my own mind."

Dr. Willis Harman, then President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, 
1994 conference – "Towards a Scientific Basis for Consciousness" 
Univ. of Arizona Medical School. (Closing Remarks - Plenary Session)

Thomas Kuhn
(M.I.T. Professor of Philosophy)

     ". . .(T)he early development stages of most sciences have been (are) characterized by continual competition between a number of distinct views of nature, each partially derived from, and all roughly compatible with, the dictates of scientific observation and method.  What differentiated (differentiates) these various schools was (is) not one or another failure of method -- they were all "scientific" -- but what we shall come to call their incommensurable ways of seeing the world and practicing science in it."

Willis Harman
(Former President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences)

     "Scientists typically assume (or behave as though they do) that the philosophical premises underlying science are not at issue - that they are part of the definition of modern science. . . .
     Yet, many debates that appear to be about scientific matters in fact center around implicit ontological issues about the ultimate nature of reality, and epistemological issues about how we might find out."