Jim Devine wrote:
Scientific progress changes things. It creates economic upheaval and
has the potential to...
First, I want to note that environmental upheaval was left out of that
sentence...
Like fish that change sex near the outfalls of sewage plants due to
estrogen in the graywater from the millions of birth control pills women
consume every day, or that traces of Prozac[tm] were found in the London
water supply. The Native Americans and their Soapweed were Soooo
inefficient, compared to the psychomimetically stupified fish of the
21st century.
Everyone around here is wondering where all the Monarch butterflies that
use to winter at Natural Bridges State Beach went. They are being killed
off on their migration route by Monsanto GMO corn in Mexico that is
fatally toxic to them, even by the simple act of alighting on a
supportive looking tassel.
I don't support research that's based on the concept of taking genetic
material from, let's say, a society that has a gene for clubfoot,
patenting a vaccine based on those genes, and then not even going back
to that society and distributing the vaccine, not even tell them what
you'v done with their genetic material... because you never even told
them that you were taking the material.
The local genetic goat farm kept 10 times as many goats as the county
allowed, and permanently contaminated the groundwater and riparian
corridor on the north side of Santa Cruz city.
Thieves! Liars!
Lacking anything resembling ethics... That, in my estimation, IS the
state of much of modern "what-passes-for-science" in America and the
industrialized nations today..
Here's a take on the stem cells "red herring" from Travus T. Hipp, which
I posted recently, but seems appropriate at this juncture:
[July 20 2006] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It’s A Matter
Of Priorities… Stem Cell Research: Because That’s The Way Medicine Is
‘Done’ In America, And A Note About GWB’s ‘Snake Handling’ Friends
http://www.snurl.com/tth_060720
[ M3U Audio Playlist 128Kbps 9:43 Minutes including the news segment ]
I have MAJOR problems with ANY science-soley-for-profit, and that
includes the genetics industry. You COULD say that it almost singles out
that particular branch of science. Too bad.
Scientists reallly needs to get back to basics and work on the common
problems with immediate and practical applications, or is that too
boring, or too under-funded? Not enough notoriety?
For instance, are there grants to develop foods that are more nutritious?
I think not. However, There are grants to develop foods that are more
resistant to the petrochemical industry's poison products, so farmers
can grow *more* of *less* nutritious crops in biologically raped soil.
If that is scientfic progress, keep it, and keep it away from me.
That's my screed...
