Sunday, December 10, 2006
Sorry, Science is NOT Infallible...
Here is an article about a famous scientist named Richard Doll, who passed away last year. His research helped in creating the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
Richard Doll also stated that there is no link between Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Vietnam, and cancer. Turns out that Doll was on the Monsanto payroll at that time (Monsanto was the manufacturer of Agent Orange) and sometimes being paid $1500 a day.
Other non-corporate owned scientists have, however, found many connections between Agent Orange, created by Monsanto, and at least six different types of cancer.
I have heard many conversations about the infallability of science. How science is the one true god of this world. Here is a case where science is pretty fallible. The people who inform me science is infallible narrow the scope of the argument. I usually bring up Kennewick Man and the lack of science that Jamie Chatters used, and there is a sudden hush that seems to whisper that I have an inferior mind and am emotionally tainted when it comes to the one true god of science. No, I just don't narrow the frame of the discussion to the "infallability of science."
Apologists for Doll say that he did great work with the lung cancer issues and saved many lives. Well, Nazi doctors who vivisected Jews and Sinti and Romani made discoveries that saved many lives as well. Are their horrific actions considered fine because they created many advances in the science of medicine? If a man saved the lives of 37 people, does that make it OK that he raped and murdered 8?
So, Doll, because I know many people effected by agent orange created by MONSANTO and have heard of the deaths via cancer by many people effected by the shit, you have earned a great big unFCCregulated FUCK YOU from me! People say I shouldn't speak ill of the dead, well then, I guess we should all sing praise to the great works of Columbus, Chivington, Custer, Reagan, Hitler, and so many others.
Read the article. It's time to change the world!
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1208-05.htm
Richard Doll also stated that there is no link between Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Vietnam, and cancer. Turns out that Doll was on the Monsanto payroll at that time (Monsanto was the manufacturer of Agent Orange) and sometimes being paid $1500 a day.
Other non-corporate owned scientists have, however, found many connections between Agent Orange, created by Monsanto, and at least six different types of cancer.
I have heard many conversations about the infallability of science. How science is the one true god of this world. Here is a case where science is pretty fallible. The people who inform me science is infallible narrow the scope of the argument. I usually bring up Kennewick Man and the lack of science that Jamie Chatters used, and there is a sudden hush that seems to whisper that I have an inferior mind and am emotionally tainted when it comes to the one true god of science. No, I just don't narrow the frame of the discussion to the "infallability of science."
Apologists for Doll say that he did great work with the lung cancer issues and saved many lives. Well, Nazi doctors who vivisected Jews and Sinti and Romani made discoveries that saved many lives as well. Are their horrific actions considered fine because they created many advances in the science of medicine? If a man saved the lives of 37 people, does that make it OK that he raped and murdered 8?
So, Doll, because I know many people effected by agent orange created by MONSANTO and have heard of the deaths via cancer by many people effected by the shit, you have earned a great big unFCCregulated FUCK YOU from me! People say I shouldn't speak ill of the dead, well then, I guess we should all sing praise to the great works of Columbus, Chivington, Custer, Reagan, Hitler, and so many others.
Read the article. It's time to change the world!
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1208-05.htm
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