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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: On Going Beyond The Information Given & 'Cognition'
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In article <807755503snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
David Longley  <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <jqbDCwLsr.E6t@netcom.com> jqb@netcom.com "Jim Balter" writes:
>
>> What really worries me is that "behavior scientists" want to be, not merely
>> scientists, but also engineers, politicians, and administrators.  Perhaps a
>> keener understanding of what science *is* would help.  And perhaps what is
>> missing here is a fine-grain analysis of the behavior of "behavior
>> scientists", along with some coarse correction to stem their anti-societal
>> tendencies.
>> 
>
>Why is trying to record, measure and systematically analyse observations of 
>behaviour anti-societal? Surely such a service is no more than an effort to
>be explcit and accountable?

Is that what clinical psychologists do?  Is that what you are talking about
when you write of re-education, rather than "care and understanding", being
what they should be doing?  Is disingenuousness science?


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