On distorting scientific findings and relying on them
Hello Rabbi,
See article: http://www.israelhayom.co.il/opinion/391661
I would love to hear your opinion.
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I would divide scientists who speak on subjects outside their field of expertise from science itself. Here we are talking about people who happen to make a living from science, but the statements were not made in a scientific field. In the scientific field, people are supposed to carefully examine the data before forming a position. But in the fields of ideology and public activity, it is human nature to operate on a less solid basis. Regrettable, but universal and forgivable. We all feed on newspaper headlines and form positions based on them. What needs to be done is to put them in their place, and hope that they will be honest enough that when the facts are revealed to them as they are, they will retract them and apologize.
By the way, speaking of which, I don’t really understand what’s so bad about genetic testing. Why is it worse than verbal tests of who your father or mother is? Is it less racist because it’s not done in a test tube? After all, he also agrees that when there is doubt about the parents, genetics is used.
Rubinstein’s words indicate that he is truly opposed to this as well, and that for him, belonging to a recognized Jewish community is enough. But he fails to notice that such belonging is also usually based on more or less “racist” tests.
By the way, I think that in most countries in the world citizenship is granted based on origin and parents (American parents give their son American citizenship, which is “racist” denied to me, an Israeli). Yes, yes, I know that citizenship is not a race and Judaism is. So what? It’s profiling, and it really doesn’t matter on what basis it’s done. The excessive sensitivity to racial considerations is just a hysterical post-Nazi reaction, and it is fundamentally meaningless. The problem is with profiling, not racism (=profiling based on race).
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