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Synthesizes the text of three interviews conducted with Paul K. Feyerabend in Rome, Italy, on 15 May 1992. Imre Lakatos, described by Feyerabend as a "science freak," is credited with inspiring Feyerabend to write what became Against Method. Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975). Feyerabend also states that scientists who encouraged his critique of science were two teachers in Vienna, Hans Thirring & Felix Ehrenhaft, as well as Albert Einstein's successor Phillip Frank. Feyerabend argues for a more systematic public interference in the grant of money to the sciences. He also suggests that teaching creationism in schools would be no worse than teaching "so much other garbage" that the schools teach. Feyerabend also questions whether the abstract approach to reality has actually been a success because of the persistent barbarism still found in this advanced scientific age. M. Greenberg