Tilting at windbags …

… Peter Richardson: The Science Delusion - Book Review - Truthdig. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“In the end,” White claims, “the problem for science is that it doesn’t know what its own discoveries mean.” It isn’t that scientists can’t communicate that meaning, but rather that doing so requires a language of human value that isn’t itself scientific. This is only a problem, of course, when some of them try to forbid all other forms of meaning.