We overlapped, Eugene.
And the state should be separated from universities which should be a form
of critical inquiry for the population of the state. But it isn't so.
Concerning the medical model. What that invocation of clinical trials leaves
out is that clinical trials with random assignment come at the very
end of a long and arduous period of research, literally, re-searching,
searching again which is a messy, heterogeneous, contested process as
Latour among others taught us to appreciate.
The whole rhetorical structure fits right in with the idea that the
misinformation about "weapons of mass destruction" which led the US
Congress to back war is a "non-issue." And you know what? I think the
people of the US will go along with that so long as the body count
doesn't become intolerable (American body count, the kind that counts)
mike
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