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2009-12-06 Science & Technology

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Posted by tipper 2009-12-06 07:14|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I can simplify what has happened to science to the fact that they have lost their moral compass. So much so, that many scientists even cringe and shrink from the very idea of morality, thinking of it as little more than an oppressive bond on scientific advancement.

Worse, some now actively seek to violate any moral or ethical boundary on principle. This leads almost exclusively to dehumanization in any form they can imagine. Dr. Mengele becomes the role model.

In graphic and real terms, it debases science, because it is not scientific. Instead it relies on whim and prejudice for its ends. A superb example was that scientific meeting in Texas, in which a scientist proposed that the death of the majority of mankind, by whatever means, would be a good thing.

Based on the arbitrary belief that mankind is overpopulated, flavored with any number of base prejudices against other races and peoples, looking at humans as no more valuable than an unwanted fungal culture in a Petri dish.

Most of all, an arrogant belief that they are "above the fray", "homo superior" above the mere mortals they so despise, by virtue of an academic degree.

Not ironically, in person, it was discovered that the vast majority of them question whether they deserved their degree in the first place, feeling unqualified for it and their eventual employment.

So feelings of inferiority translated to feelings of superiority, and stripped of any morality. What a screwed up world view.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-12-06 09:13|| 2009-12-06 09:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Science like Journalism became a realm for people to change the world not erase the false.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-12-06 14:49|| 2009-12-06 14:49|| Front Page Top

#3 In other words - Scientists like Journalists (spit!) started creating the 'truth' instead of reporting the truth.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-12-06 15:42|| 2009-12-06 15:42|| Front Page Top

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