[Buddha-l] nytimes article on the Emory U Tibetans andScience project

[Dan Lusthaus]

>> Why assume Tibetans would be incapable of understanding scientific 
>> methods and knowledge on its own terms? Are they culturally retarded?
>
> I can't imagine a more bizarre interpretation of what anyone here has said 
> recently. No such assumption was made by anyone. Why assume that such an 
> assumption was being made by anyone?
> Richard

Then why discourage them from doing so? It was a rhetorical question 
designed to illustrate how absurd wishing Tibetans would stay away from 
science is. I can't imagine anyone who is intelligent not recognizing that.

Dan