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C00002 00002	2.1) Davis, Bernard David, STORM OVER BIOLOGY (Buffalo, N.Y. : 1986.)
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2.1) Davis, Bernard David, STORM OVER BIOLOGY (Buffalo, N.Y. : 1986.)
       LOCATION: QH311.D38 1986: Green Stacks; Meyer
2.2) Davis, Bernard David, THE SPECIFICITY OF CELL SURFACES. (Englewood Cliffs,
       N.J., [1967])
       LOCATION: QH601.D25: Biology; Hopkins Marine
2.3) MICROBIOLOGY, INCLUDING IMMUNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS / 3d ed.
       (Hagerstown, Md. : c1980.)
       LOCATION: QR46.M5393 1980(LIB. ALSO HAS : c.2): Lane Medical Reserve
                 (c.2)
2.4) HUMAN DIVERSITY, ITS CAUSES AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE (Cambridge, Mass. :
       c1976.)
       LOCATION: GN247.H86: Green Stacks
2.5) MICROBIOLOGY, INCLUDING IMMUNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS / 3d ed.
       (Hagerstown, Md. : c1980.)
       LOCATION: QR46.M5393 1980: Biology Ref

6.1) Dawkins, Richard, THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE (Oxford ; c1982.)
       LOCATION: QH375.D38: Biology
6.2) Dawkins, Richard, THE SELFISH GENE (New York : 1976.)
       LOCATION: QH437.D38: Biology; Hopkins Marine
7.1) Dawkins, Richard THE SELFISH GENE, (Oxford Univ. Press, 1976.)
       LOCATION: QH437.D38: Meyer
p. 205
Davis's analysis of anti-science treats it as a phenomenon of
public reaction.  He doesn't see that the existence of an
organized anti-science movement or an anti-science position
on the part of other movements is a meme.

p. 216
Here are his reasons for public loss of confidence in science.

p221
"With the growing impact of technology on society" ...

p222
"If I believed such political applications of genetics were at
all likely, I would share this apprehension".  It is a myth
that our Government is organized in such a way that whoever
holds office can do such things.  The bureaucracy is neither
capable of organizing it nor sufficiently loyal to whoever
is President nor capable of recruiting people of the required
obedience.

p225
"Technological imperative"

"Nevertheless, the current attack has evoked wide sympathy, and
it has created an atmosphere of intimidation: few graduate students
today are likely to enter the field of human behavioral genetics."

p227
"The dangers of scientism and the value of objectivity"
The word "scientism" was clearly invented as something
to be opposed, because what does an adherent of scientism
call himself?

Bad arguments against scientism.

While it is true that policy involves value judgments,
and therefore science doesn't itself determine policy,
it may well be that exactly one general value judgment
combined with enough science can determine all policy
and all specific judgments.  For example, science might
provide a convincing notion of happiness to which a
Rawls-like theory of justice might refer.  The application
of the justice principle to a specific case would then
be a scientific question.  I don't think we'll get a
plausible scientific notion of happiness or welfare soon,
and I don't recommend Rawls's theory of justice.  It's
just not logically excluded.

p233
"On the other hand, today our civilization has a growing
sense of crisis".

(11) While the moral consensus may have weakened, the amount
of crime has not increased, especially among respectable
people.

Davis has been one of the few courageous voices in the Cambridge
scientific community.  While there are many scientists who don't
share the neo-Marxist views that currently dominate certain aspects
of Cambridge discussion, almost all have found it possible to
continue with their work, almost undisturbed by all the flap.

One wants to ask Davis what Janos Kadar is said to have asked
Dubcek, ``Did you really not know what kind of people you were
dealing with?''

Davis concedes too much.  The frequency of catastrophe has been
declining all the time.

Causes as careers
I haven't seen a summary of what Spencer and the the "social
Darwinists" believed.  Perhaps social  Darwinism, like
scientism, is an invention of its enemies.