2015考研英语阅读集中练：anti-science

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    2015考研英语阅读集中练：anti-science
   
    Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture.
Think of Galileo’s 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before the
Catholic Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic
worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities has, if
anything, deepened in this century.
    Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could
afford to ignore its critics - but no longer. As funding for science has
declined, scientists have attacked “anti-science” in several books, notably
Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of
Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The
Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.
    Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as
“The Flight from Science and Reason,” held in New York City in 1995, and
“Science in the Age of (Mis)information,” which assembled last June near
Buffalo.
    Anti-science clearly means different things to different people. Gross and
Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics
who have questioned science’s objectivity. Sagan is more concerned with those
who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the
scientific worldview.
    A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been
attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the
elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virusto Republicans who
advocated decreased funding for basic research.
    Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, those manifesto,
published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pretechnological
utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about
uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News &
World Report last May seemed to suggest.
    The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics. The true
enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of
environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global
warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial
growth.
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