THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE
Sir,-I have just heard the ZB book review chaired-or at least I thought it was supposed to be chaired-by. Mr, Anton Vogt. The first review by Mr. Kenneth Melvin of Anthony Standen’s book, Science is a Sacred Cow, was followed by another review by the chairman. Mr. Vogt suggested that the book went too far, but he did not show how. He proceeded to say that he disliked other fanatics as much _ as scientific fanatics, as tough the author by writing only of scientific fanatics implied that he did not. This book was supposed to be about science and the other fanatics had no place in it. All in all, this second review was a vague piece of apologia for the scientific attitude. Mr. Standen understands the empirical sciences as lower in the scale of science than mathematics, Mr.- Vogt
returns to the idea Mr. Standen is so scornful of, that the empirical sciences have as much to contribute to human wellbeing as philosophy, religion and mathematics.
IPSO
FACTO
(Hamilton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 5
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173THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 5
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