ABSTRACT
The question about what it means to say that ‘nature is evil’ is many-sided. Among its sides, I would like to concentrate on questioning the meaning of certain strong accusations of this kind which have actually been made by distinguished scientists. As often happens with extreme manifestos, these accusations seem to me to cast a useful light on the other, more cautious, parts of the controversial scene. In particular, I would like to consider how these attacks relate to the ‘official neutrality of a scientific view of reality’, which is an important part of our topic in this book.
