如果科学 by definition 就是要有怀疑精神,就是反对迷信任何东西(包括科学本身),那“迷信科学”当然是伪命题。不过,这样一来也就没有实践上的意义了,就好像当年说马克思主义(或共产党)是自我完善自我修正的,因而是高于各门学科的最大科学(因而是永远伟大光荣正确)一样。就好像有人说现代医学(俗称“西医”)是开放体系, by definition 可以吸收和包含一切传统医学的精华一样,天然优越于一切传统医学。
(1) [相信科学]和[迷信]毫不相干
Believing in science has nothing to do with superstition.
(2) 相信[科学和迷信毫不相干]
To believe that science has nothing to do with superstition.
“对于大多数人来说,相信科学和迷信毫不相干。”
鹿兄的上述观察大概是指(1)。至于第(2)种含义,”相信[科学和迷信毫不相干]”(believing that science has nothing to do with superstition)是我们从小就相信的,但是如果这种“毫不相干”包括排除有“迷信科学”的人和现象存在的话,则是不确切的,这也正是镜子宣扬的。
——– 立委名言:总体而言,汉语较英语歧义。
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这个我相信,大体同意鹿兄的判断。 (46364)
Posted by: liwei999
Date: January 12, 2007 02:42AM
# 老中医on 31 Jan 2009 at 12:58 am Vote: 0 0
客观的说中医西医各有所长,不可偏废.我接触的病人都是底层民众,大多没有医保,不可能出几百块去看一个感冒发烧咳嗽,如果二三十块的中药能解决,中药再难吃也不是问题!毕竟还有很多人是不敢生病的!有很多人是上不起医院烧钱的!
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感冒发烧咳嗽根本没必要看医生
众所周知,经济发达的西方世界搞国家社会主义(他们叫 social programs)已经有很长时间了,可以说,没有社会主义,就没有现代的西方资本主义,就会倒退到原始落后的血腥资本主义去。社会主义的生存权完全没有问题,所争的是多与少的问题。论社会主义的比例,我感觉其实中国远不如北欧,也无法与西欧和加澳相比,等美国全民医疗保障到位以后,甚至也将落后于美国。在社会主义方面,中国没有多少骄傲的资本。在几亿农民的医疗、工作和户口等基本权利不能得到保障的情况下,中国是社会主义落后国家的帽子很难脱掉。当然,这不简单是当局的过错,而是历史造成的,受经济发展水平所制约。在和谐社会的建设过程中,衷心希望执政党坚持自己的社会主义信念,在社会主义道路上阔步前进,赶英超美,直逼北欧。
“Wow, it is almost 6 American dollars, 2-3 times more expensive than US. I got my beautiful Fuwa toy for only 30 Chinese dollars, and this little ice-cream is 40 dollars, unbelievable!”
人算不如天算。曾宁有好友海云,也是网络上粉丝无数的奇女子(http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myindex.php?blogID=10156),应硅谷女性之邀,要在硅谷女性的招牌活动读书会上主讲龙应台其人其文。宁妹子于是在本坛以转贴的形式发出了“曾宁有约”的通告(http://www.dingding.tv/bbs/read.php?tid=404:“明天我会去的,希望能在那里会见朋友们“),给海云有约站台。尽管是 short notice, 立委绝不想错过此等双重有约之良机,欣然前往应约。
There are two types of command economies. In a strong command economy, such as communism, the state makes all the economic decisions. The state controls all the resources for the common good. The state decides what to produce, how much, and how to distribute it. China, Cuba and many Latin American and African countries have strong command economies.
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In a moderate command economy, also called socialism, there is some form of private enterprise. The state owns major resources, such as airlines and steel, and makes the key economic decisions. However, individuals may own some businesses. France and Sweden are countries that have moderate comman economies.
The primary advantages of a command economy is that it guarantees everyone an equal standard of living. The state provides you with a job, a place to live, and health care. Goods and services are distributed evenly. The state also takes care of things like utilities, transportation, and defense. There is usually less crime and poverty because everyone's needs and wants are equally met.
Mixed Economy: A free market economy and a command economy are great ideas in principle but don't always work in practice. In a market economy, there can be great poverty in the midst of great wealth. In a command economy, everyone is economically equal. In reality, few nations have an economy based totally on one model or the other. Most nations have a mixed economy, a combination of a market and command economy. The state takes care of people's needs while the marketplace takes care of people's wants. In the United States, for example, the government provides things like defense and education. The marketplace provides things like cars, computers and fast food. There is some government regulation of business.
Scott Thompson 雅虎CEO因履历上的电脑学位并非事实遭遇质疑,被迫“因个人原因”下台。
互联网巨头雅虎这几年管理混乱,风雨飘摇,人心涣散,人才大量流失。其创始人及前 CEO 杨致远战线太长,一再失误,空有雄心,回天无力,雅虎股价持续下挫,成为投资人弃之可惜食之无味的鸡肋。董事局好不容易下了决心,请杨致远出局,找到了这个据说能力超强的新CEO,开始了大刀阔斧的裁员和公司重构,却闹出这么个丑闻,使得CEO不得不谢罪下台,雅虎前途是一片黯淡。本来就是个巨大的烂摊子,Scott 的改革也未见得奏效,但不改必死,让一个有经验的执行长改革一下,也许可以死里逃生,也未可知。
据统计,在美国履历造假也是普遍现象,高达近五成。大部分履历造假都得以逃避惩罚,因为雇主很少做真正的背景审查。不过,企业高管的履历造假丑闻引发诚信问题,有损公司信誉,迫使董事局有时不得不忍痛自断其臂。但也有董事局顶住压力,为了公司的最大利益,坚持保住履历有瑕疵者的职位的先例。Bausch & Lomb CEO Ronald Zarrella 就是如此,丑闻以后他被迫让出了一百万的奖金,以平息股东的愤怒,得以保住其位,励精图治,五年以后成功出卖了公司,从而收获了三千万。
A study conducted in 2009 by payroll and HR outsourcing firm ADP found that 46 percent of reference checks turned up discrepancies. If it seems surprising that nearly half of job applicants fudge their credentials in one way or another, another stat explains why: It's really easy to get away with it. According to the Society for HumanResourceManagement, just under half of companies check to see if job applicants have the degrees they claim to hold. An even smaller percentage verifies that job-seekers actually went to the schools they say they attended.
Most of these job-seekers obviously aren't CEOs, but Thompson isn't the first chief executive to have a resume that doesn't match up to the facts. RadioShack CEO David Edmondson resigned in 2006 after the Fort Worth Star-Telegram discovered that he hadn't earned the two degrees he claimed. Kenneth Lonchar, CFO of Veritas Software, resigned in 2002 after the company found out he didn't hold the MBA he claimed to have earned.
These executives don't always leave. When it was discovered in 2002 that Bausch & Lomb CEO Ronald Zarrella hadn't really gotten an MBA from NYU's Stern SchoolofBusiness, he had to give up more than a million dollars in bonus compensation. The longtime company executive got to keep his job, though. Five years later, Zarrella netted nearly $30 million from a private equity takeover of the company.
The irony is that Thompson's degree didn't really matter when Yahoo hired him, Challenger said. "No company wants someone who's been lying on his or her background, but in terms of job searches for executives, companies don't care much about what they did when they were 22. They care about what they did in the last five or 10 years."
Yahoo is standing behind Thompson, saying in a statement, "This in no way alters the fact that Mr. Thompson is a highly qualified executive with a successful track record leading large consumer technology companies."
民为本在中土有深长的思想积淀,无论正统还是在野,包括起义军,也包括中共上台前和后,一切为民都是响当当的从来都是政治正确的口号。彭德怀当年就说:当官不为民做主,不如回家烤白薯。
曰: 以人为本,不是中国的传统价值,你整反了。
你举的例子都是民和官的关系,无论谁在上还 是下,仍然是官民关系,父子关系,都是社会关系,强调团体利益。 以人为本,强调的是个人价值,state and quality of being an individual, being self expressive, independent. 后者是西方文化的传统价值。眼下中土大力提倡“以人为本”,其实准确的表达应该是“以民为本”,符合传统文化和当下国家利益
既然如此,为什么大数据调查发现,至少最近一个月,在加州、纽约州等地,转基因成为热门话题。我的猜想是,可能这些州华人不少,也许由于国内转基因争论反过来影响了这边的升温。另一个原因可能是转基因标识提案引起的 awareness,大家这才意识到,哦,原来还有这么个转基因的事儿呀。至于为什么加州微弱多数否决了标识的提案,我觉得不能简单说加州人民大多数都不在乎(我觉得解读成不热心反对更加靠谱)。因为人的本性是懒惰的,不到不得已不去改变 status quo,因此只有到民间积累了足够的反对力量和激情,才有可能通过这样的提案。如果考虑到很多人以前从来不了解这个东西,那么最近40%多反对票实际上很可能说明,从趋势上看,反转的力量在民间有增长的趋势(trends)。以后我有机会,会从时间曲线的大数据统计来证实或否定我这个直观的感觉,让事实说话。
又是一次动荡,事情终于闹大了。
呵呵,开后门进来的事情,此事不可公开说啊:-)
“德赛不过是一种生活方式“,就是说不要将德赛二先生推向神坛,而是在日常小事(网络上=发文留言etc)上体现科学和民主的精神。没有什么热恋过头的感觉啊,this year head,想要热恋的感觉都找不到了,哪里还会有过头的感觉:-(
顺便说一句,任何博主进来也没有被要求签字画押,保持高度一致的。
无论如何,用技术手段屏蔽是不必的。
希望站方调整一下姿态。
寻正一直说立委是“人文学者”,在留言中提醒寻正好几回,今天的帖子里还是这么说,唉。
如果不禁言、不删贴,大家可以各说各话,就没什么大不了的,真理越辩越明。
到现在为止,还没有看到对liwei的批评,liwei多虑了。
另外从事科技或科学工作的人,不一定就不是反科学,至少liwei如此热衷的转载mirror的言论,就已经朝反科学的方向前进了。
最后,这里“小将”固然不少,“老兵”也是有很多的,不管是谁,都要努力学习科学精神,这里不是凭资历或名气来装神弄鬼的地方。
红叶:科学精神固然重要,但那是虚的啊!听听“老兵”的“know how”和”心得”不是一件愉快的事情吗?
科学精神一点都不虚。
要反科学,总得有个貌似不反科学的借口。把科学家打成人文学者,就是一个不错的借口。
人家怕的就是真理越辩越明,所以才要封杀。如果心里有着科学的底气,又何须成天高举科学的大旗?
得了吧,Liwei是不吭声,后来又要把问题往什么“宽妥”上扯;Mirror是不正面讨论问题,跟贴除了嘲笑,就是玩文字游戏。这就是你说的“真理越辩越明”?笑话。
虽然我不认同Qbit的观点,但至少他有讨论问题的诚意,这一点上,上述两位加起来都不如Qbit。
【我入公园走的是后门,没有宣誓效忠,也没有签字画押要保持与中央的高度一致。】
網主也 不容易,既要繼承甚至超過新語絲的科學主義帝國風格,又要顯示比新語絲更寬容,真是難以完成的任務啊!
【以组织和长老的名义耍流氓,开互联网先河】
立委老師這句話站不住腳。
【立委是个标准的科学工作者或科学家 (立委作为Principal Scientist承担国家17个科研项目的PI,立委技术移民美国走的就是 Outstanding Researcher 的优先通道),】
可見國家的科研項目是“偽科學項目”,美國更是一個偽科學當道的國度,比不得賽園科學主義純度高!
科学编辑部的负责人、代表“主流科学”发言的,都不曾“有讨论问题的诚意”,而是一开始就扣“伪科学”、“骗子”的帽子,倒要非科学编辑部的、不敢代表“主流科学”的,对这样的“科学”代言人,“有讨论问题的诚意”?^_^
当然,职业科学人也难免滥竽充数,缺乏科学精神,只要不骂人,广大小将的批判和帮助,立委还是心存感激的。
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立委老兄心胸过人,不错!当初我来德赛,原因就是喜欢德赛和xys分家后,偏安一隅,低调地坚守自己的阵地。原本觉得来德赛可能会低调好一段时间,想不到造化弄人,冉匪加盟,新老右派来归,国内的整风运动又把德赛推到风口浪尖上,德赛又颇有几个能做事的人,想低调都不行。还请立委兄继续支持!