SCIENCE POLICY 83 Shcinin's belief that the disciplinary approach is obsolete is hardly acceptable though it is true that scientists are increasingly taking an inter-disciplinary approach. Here again the implicit assumption is the notion of fundamentalky of natural law. This is also Weinberg's assumption and it reflects in his criteria.6 So scientists follow this criteria implicitly. But at the same time Weinberg can be criticized for ignoring the socio-political dimensions. ^In order to make the system of selection and decision making in science policy more reliable and to reduce the probabi- "f lity of error to a minimum, there is an ultimate need to convert the science policy mechanism into a self-organising system". This is the strong belief of the author of the book and he envisages science policy as the ancillary mechanism of the integral or "universal intellect". PRANAV N DESA 1 C B Macpherson, Democratic Theory, London, Oxford University Press, 1973, pp 24-36. 2 Ina Spiegel-Rosing and Derek de Solla Price, The Study of Science, Technology and Society: Recent Trends and Future Challenges, London, Saga Publication, 1977, pp 7-42. 8 Through building links between different areas of investigation science is unified, For details see Nancy L Maull, '^Unifying Science without Reduction", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol 8, No 2, 1977, pp 143-162. 4 Yaron Ezrahi, "The Political Resources of Science", in Barry Barnes (ed), Sociology of Science, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972, pp 211-230. 5 Baran and Swcezy attribute the development of monopoly capital to technological change. See for details Paul A Baran and Paul M Sweezy, Monopoly Capital, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1976. 6 MJ Morvesik, "A Refinement of Extrinsic Criteria for Scientific Choice'', Research Policy, Vol 3, 1974, pp 88-97.