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Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture.Th
Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture.Th
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Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture.Think of Gallileo’s 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton.The schism between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century.
Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics—but no longer.As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked "antiscience" in several books, notably Higher Superstition, by Paul R.Gross, a biologist at the University of Verginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from Science and Reason," held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of (Mis) information," which assembled last June near Buffalo.
Antiscience clearly means different things to different people.Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned science’s objectivity.Sagan is more concerned with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.
A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unbomber, those manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pretechnological Utopia.But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are antiscience, as an essay in U.S.News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.
The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics.The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
Indeed, some observers fear that the antiscience epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless."The term ’antiscience’ can lump together too many, quite different things," notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti Science."They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened." [br] The author’s attitude toward the issue of "science vs.antiscience" is______.
选项
A、impartial
B、subjective
C、biased
D、puzzling
答案
A
解析
本题可参照文章的第1段。从中可知,科学与文化其他方面关系一直紧张;本世纪,科学与人文科学之间的裂痕更深了;随后两段举例说明了科学家的做法——抨击他人,把别人说成是反科学;最后两段谈了一些人对此的反应。据此可知,作者只是客观地叙述了自然科学与人文科学(即“科学与反科学”)之间的争论,并没有发表自己的观点,说明他是公正的。因此A项为正确答案。
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