Hey hey hey!! How much does religion affect MIT?

molliebatmit
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:09:42 +0000

Well, I think that ID proponents often claim they’re discriminated against just because the scientific community has some sort of vested interest in promoting evolution, and I was just trying to point out that it’s not mere discrimination – that being in the club doesn’t prevent you from being ostracized, even if you have a Nobel Prize.

I guess my view is that having the national academies vote is a little dangerous too – the majority of scientists are not always right. In my field, until not very long ago, the majority of scientists would have said that there was no neurogenesis in the adult brain, and they would have been profoundly wrong. (And it’s not that it just hadn’t been investigated, and therefore they didn’t know – it had been examined, and people said there was no neurogenesis.) A vote tracked over time would perhaps be useful.