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I am saying that the context of the discoveries is itself necessarily shaped by the context in which the work is done. Full stop. It might be subtle, it might be extreme. Depends on the circumstance. But it's there. Hard to imagine what a context-free discovery would look like.
(Separately, you will be amused I am sure to know that David Kaiser — historian of physicist and actively publishing theoretical physicist — has been working for some years now on a book about the political history of GR. The talks I have seen from it are very interesting!)
Good morning! Yes, I know David well, and admire his work. I also hugely enjoyed his lectures on the history of physics at MIT. I think David and I would agree that the initial gestation (as opposed to reception) of GR was simply the curiosity of one man, and not political
Well, I think you will be surprised by his book, then! Definitely check it out when it comes out. It is closer to my take on this than yours, in my judgment (from having seen him give talks on it, and having worked as a research assistant for parts of it).
In summ, it seems to me that to assert science is *always* political is almost as bad as those who assert that science is never political. Pretty soon, one gets quoted on Fox News "expert says climate science is political"!
I just want to say, that just because bad actors (like Fox News) will take statements out of context deliberately should not be a barometer about how we (good actors) should discuss these things. The bad actors will do bad things no matter what we say. That's what makes them bad.
Agreed! Btw, I have lost the original thread, but I was taken aback by the vitriolic attack on your colleague by some self-declared scientists. It must be frustrating when people dismiss the whole notion of societal influence on science out of hand, not my position at all
I remembered during the night that the Cambridge scholar Hasok Chang has a nice article where he points out that the internal logic of science sometimes really is the context. We corresponded quite a bit on this, I think the article is at http://www.oppihistoriallinenseura.fi/ScienceBackInHoS_Helsinki2016.pdf …
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