Episode 051 - Patricia Bellm: Responsibility and control in science and engineering

What do we want to do in this podcast? Goals for the year Values of experience, e.g. Mexico: solar ovens from recycled materials Credit consulting, etc., for exploited women in Mexico The little estate in Mexico Back to credit cards & exploitation of ignorance Responsibility of those to whom much is given Bringing it around to science Career and sacrifice and little deaths Chris, the handicapped man at the ND Center for Social Justice The ethics of "fixing" or preventing Chris from being the way he is The lack of philosophic background and the intellectual amnesia of contemporary science Philosophy of science and the disappointment of 20th century physics, but the culture goes on unaware Science, fundamentally cannot replace faith ...this is where Patricia makes that claim that science is about control Ethics of changing human beings, other elements of creation Bill poses the relativism question again Patricia responds that "you can control science" Everyone confronts the same Reality, and we cannot control it, but we prefer the illusion that we can