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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:21:00 EDT
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- Subject: Re: Personal experience challenge
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- Sybil,
-
- Your point is well-taken, and I agree with Matthew
- about his interpretation re: my chair's remarks. It did at
- the time seem otherwise (and still does on occasion) when I was
- trying to pry loose some $ for improving lab facilities in our
- department.
- How about this personal example.....only it's really
- rather a public one: The Behavioral Science Summits that APS
- sponsored for a few years, in order to develop the Human
- Capital Initiative. There were quite a few reps there from
- Washington who told us all that we psychologists didn't know
- how to get along and play nice with one another, and that a
- lack of a unified front as scientists is part of why nobody in
- Congress was interested in funding psychological research.
- Certainly, the existence of APS and the recent
- recissions of behavioral science research grants also testify
- to a real problem in the view of psychology as a science.
- However, now that I think about it, perhaps whoever it was that
- paraphrased "Pogo" in this discussion was right--"We has met
- the enemy, and they is us."
- --Kathy Morgan
- kmorgan@wheatnma.bitnet
-
-
- PS--I know, I get "challenged" a lot. And I ask for it. I was
- just having a "bad hair" day, of something. Sorry for my
- snapping back!
-