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Article #2393Re: Mechanization Of America
From: clifto
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:15
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:15
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Brock Ulfsen wrote:
> clifto wrote:
>> Drs. Warren and Marshall won the Nobel Prize in Medicine DESPITE "science",
>> not because of it.
>
> No, they were thwarted by Capitalism, not science.
There's some material I read years ago that has disappeared from the
web. (One, for example, is a FORTUNE Magazine article that's now pay-
per-read.) It was indeed partly capitalism, but there was one high
muckey-muck who told Dr. Marshall flatly that "nothing can live in
the gut" as his reason to ignore the scientific evidence that proved
that something *was* living in the gut.
> Independent scientific research yused to be funded by Governments, and
> by foundations and universities with no direct interest in the outcomes.
> Regulatory agencies were there to validate _independent_ research, not
> rubber stamp the PR department massaged and legal department obscured
> reports of people who's living depends on their bosses getting the
> answers they want.
Yeah, I've heard about days when politics was less important than truth.
> A better example is continental drift, which had to wait for a
> generation of geologists to die out.
Or perhaps quantum physics. Einstein never allowed God His dice.
> Science is like that, and in the
> scheme of things, a step on the learning curve of a generation is
> pretty short compared to how long it will take the Catholic Church to
> addapt to a world with the complex interaction of birth control, condoms
> and sexually transmitted diseases.
Agreed.
--
If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination,
my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.
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