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Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee Lady, Interview On Scientific Folly, Intelligent Design, Cognitive Dissonance - RI10 Repub
Jane Goodall,
Chimpanzee Lady,
Interview On
Scientific Folly,
Intelligent Design,
Cognitive
Dissonance - RI10
Repub
Originally published November 24, 2005
Chimpanzee Lady, Interview On
Scientific Folly, Intelligent Design, Cognitive Dissonance
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0740243
Go to this site for the entire Jane Goodall interview.
Thursday, November 24th, 2005
A Conversation with the "Chimpanzee Lady": Jane Goodall on Animals, the Environment and her Life
I am publishing only this brief excerpt to show that scientists can be just as pigheaded, inflexible and stupid as the Religious-Right. Cognitive Dissonance is not limited to religious types. There are many other examples of scientific stupidity: how medical profession treated Sister Kenny and her treatments of polio victims, how everyone called Robert Fulton’s invention of the steamboat, the Clermont, “Fulton’s Folly”, but nothing compares to religion’s treatment of Joan of Arc, Galileo, Darwin, Scopes, and the list goes on and on. Cognitive Dissonance can afflict anyone, it seems.
“Cognitive Dissonance: Mental Disorder Afflicts Bush Supporters, Who Cannot Face The Truth”
http://tabacco.blog-city.com/cognitive_dissonance_guilt_myopia__psychology_of_being_in_th.htm
Jane Goodall: It really was thought that there was this sharp line dividing us from the rest of the animals. When I first got to Cambridge University, because Louis said I had to get a degree to get money for myself, I was told that everything I’d done in that study of 1 1/2-years was wrong. I shouldn’t have given the chimpanzees names because that wasn’t scientific. I should have numbered them. I couldn’t talk about their personality, their mind and above all not their feelings, their emotions because those things were unique to us. So there was a very, very different perception of animal behavior back then. And most scientists only admitted that animals were little bundles of stimulus and response, and they might look as if they behaved in the human way, but that was just our interpretation.
And so the study of animal behavior back then was very cold. They were struggling to make it into a hard science. And any empathy or feeling for the animals, you were studying, was considered absolutely wrong.
Tabacco: If any of you have pets, have ever had pets, or ever been around pets, you know how stupid those ideas were. The people, who are trying to force “Creationism” or “Intelligent Design” on our school children, are cut from the same mold. Religion is not Science. God is Science! I’m not sure what He thinks of Religion. I know what I think of Religion. Basically Science pulls mankind forward, while Religion drags mankind backward into the Dark Ages. If you think God loves Right-Wing zealots and hates scientists, you are suffering from Cognitive Dissonance yourself.
Amy Goodman: I asked her (Goodall) what she makes of the whole debate against Evolution, the whole issue of so-called “Intelligent Design”.
Jane Goodall: Whatever we believe, about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today, is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we’ve made. That’s the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are. Let’s work out a way so that we can preserve what’s left of this planet and enhance it for future generations.
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