Mr. Alda thought there was a lesson in this attitude about how science moves forward.
Once the Cartesian individual is dissolved, the social sciences will move away from a subject-centered view of the world.
Medical science has moved on just a teeny-weeny bit in the last 60 years you know.
Its experiments, financed with private money, raised questions about whether science was moving ahead of public policy.
It lacks, however, a vivid, overarching narrative that would have maintained its value once the science moves on.
Nor is he moved by the argument that in 200 years from now, science may have moved on yet further.
Yet, this is one aspect of how science can move forward.
Fortunately science and robust testing are moving quickly to solve the problems of fraud and quality.
Obviously, the economy has taken centre stage, but also medical science has moved on considerably.
Human science had been moving fast, the last Barton had heard; no telling how much further it had gone.