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15 May 2009, 11:29 am

ruveyn wrote:
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This despite the fact that many products labelled science over the last 400 years have turned out to be complete junk. But people keep scrambling to win this brand name. It's still a big one.


...Generally speaking, the physical and chemical theories that mainline science has adhered to a promoted the past one hundred and fifty years are sound and well supported by experimental evidence. The record is not so good in medicine and biology, but this is understandable. Living systems are much more complicated than inanimate physical systems.

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In my pov, this is a problem escalating out of control---the extremely poor record in fields of health/medicine/biology.



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15 May 2009, 11:41 am

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Do not confuse science with the corruption of science.

Opposites sometimes attract, polar opposites, matter and anti-matter. What we potentially have is a volatile situation in which--- "true science" and "the corruption of science" have been joined together in unholy matrimony.

It is a case of master and slave, and the slave's survival is at stake.. In a corporatocracy, profit motive is at the helm.

Especially in the fields of health/medicine/biology, science is increasingly corrupted to serve the interest of its masters.



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15 May 2009, 12:49 pm

alba wrote:
Sand wrote:
Do not confuse science with the corruption of science.

Opposites sometimes attract, polar opposites, matter and anti-matter. What we potentially have is a volatile situation in which--- "true science" and "the corruption of science" have been joined together in unholy matrimony.

It is a case of master and slave, and the slave's survival is at stake.. In a corporatocracy, profit motive is at the helm.

Especially in the fields of health/medicine/biology, science is increasingly corrupted to serve the interest of its masters.


Corruption of course, is pandemic. Religion succumbed to it totally centuries ago but there still are a few genuine scientific discoveries occurring regularly.