首页
登录
职称英语
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
游客
2025-01-01
18
管理
问题
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 Virginia, 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 sucas "The Flight from Science and Reason", held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of Misinformation", which assembled last June near Buffalo.
Anti-science 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 anti-science 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 unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pre-technological utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US 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 zone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
Indeed, some observers fear that be anti-science epithet is in danger of becoming meaning less. "The term ’anti-science’ 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 the tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened." [br] The author’s attitude toward the issue of "science vs. anti-science" is ______.
选项
A、impartial
B、subjective
C、biased
D、perplexed
答案
A
解析
该题问:作者对“科学与反科学”这个争论的态度是怎样的?通过阅读全文,作者对科学与反科学的争论持的是公正的、不偏不倚的态度,没有表明主观意图。B项意为“主观的”;C项意为“有偏见的”;D项意为“困惑的”。B、C、D三项均可排除。故A项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3894323.html
相关试题推荐
NASAisanindependentdepartmentinAmericaforthestudiesof______.A、science
Sciencehaslonghadanuneasyrelationshipwithotheraspectsofculture.Th
Sciencehaslonghadanuneasyrelationshipwithotheraspectsofculture.Th
Foraboutthreecenturieswehavebeendoingscience,tryingscienceout,us
Foraboutthreecenturieswehavebeendoingscience,tryingscienceout,us
FictionandRealityTherelationshipbetweenfictionandreality
FictionandRealityTherelationshipbetweenfictionandreality
FictionandRealityTherelationshipbetweenfictionandreality
FictionandRealityTherelationshipbetweenfictionandreality
FictionandRealityTherelationshipbetweenfictionandreality
随机试题
Inarecentsurvey,GarberandHoltzconcludedthattheaveragehalf-hourch
下列句子中,意思与“顾秉谦者,严相国俦也”意思接近的是()A.求为其门卒三年
浸没的临界地下水位埋深应根据地区具体水文地质条件、农业科研单位的田间试验观测资料
森林资源资产清单中包含哪几类调查的结果( )。 A.一类调查、二类调查、三类
男性,大量饮白酒30年,近1年自觉周身乏力,食欲减退,近2个月腹围渐增大。入院查
结肠癌最早出现的临床症状是A.腹部肿块 B.全身症状如贫血、消瘦、低热等 C
李女士,47岁,患风湿性心脏病二尖瓣狭窄6年余,近日上呼吸道感染后出现心力衰竭表
患者男性,50岁因急性心肌梗死而住院治疗,住院病情不稳定,出现哪项心律失常时需警
各种运输方式内外部的各个方面的构成和联系,就是( )。 A.运输系统
企业提供给员工的各种福利属于()。A.补偿薪酬 B.激励薪酬 C.基本薪
最新回复
(
0
)