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**Dirk Van de moortel**

"Joseki" wrote in message oups.com...
Ordog proudly stated:

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!

I usually like Feyerbend [simply because he nicely brings up the stink
everyone else doesn't claim to smell] so I wonder if this is out of
context. I wonder what fields science has been "rigged" to favor?
Supernatural explanations? Plato's ideals? The accountant or laywer's
view of natural history?

Section 2.14 in
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/

Dirk Vdm