Pentcho Valev wrote:
In his book "Science in a Free Society" P. Feyerabend states: "Today
science prevails not because of its comparative merits but because the
show has been rigged in its favour".

If he says so! I am always out for a good rigging providing it involves
logic and true interest in the Universe!

Also, "the apostles of science ....

I wonder who they might be? I mean, I know who the religious apostels
are and the televangelists and the hell and brimstone preachers. But
apostels of science???

...were the more determined conquerors" who "materially suppressed the
bearers of alternative cultures".

Scientists who suppress alternative cultures??? I am a little lost
here. So those hidious scientists form a culture and are threatening
which other culture???
Watch out for those terrorist scientist! What do they look like?

Sounds realistic and yet the horror
story of George Orwell is much closer to the realities of the
situation:

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and
you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make
that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of
external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of
heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they
would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the
force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the
past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind
itself is controllable what then?"

You do realise that this description fits perfectly most modern
religious groups.

Ordog
"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies." Bernard Shaw

PS: I wonder what Orwell would have thought about the 21st century USA?