General

• Popper


  Earth goes around the sun, not the other way around. Uses scientific knowledge to challenge religion
• Merton


  Science can only thrive as an institution if it has support from others.

  
  

  CUDOS - Communism, Universalism, Discovery, Organised, Scepticalism
• Horton


  Religious beliefs cannot be challenged:

  • Absolute truth
  • Sacred
  • Divine authority
  • Fixed
• Polanyi


  All belief systems reject fundamental challenges. Scientists have to follow guidelines
• Kuhn


  Paradigms - set of shared assumptions. Ayn scientist who challenges these paradigms will be ridiculed
• Lyotard


  Science serves capitalist interest by providing commodoties for profit
• Mannheim


  All belief systems are a one-sided world view:

  • Ideological thought
  • Uptopian thought
  • Free floating intelligentisa