On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:39 PM, SS <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 09:18 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:05 AM, SS <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Science decreased death rates and increased life-spans, causing a > > > population explosion like never before. The same science responded to > > > that by decreasing birth rate. > > > > The above means what, exactly? How did "science" decrease birth rate? > > I will postpone my answer to the above question because it comes lower > down in the hierarchy than a far more fundamental question you have > asked below > > > > How astoundingly stupid. Will not be surprised at all to see religion > > > come increasingly into conflict with science. Scientists have lost the > > > plot. > > > > And what plot would this be? > > When I approach the question from a slightly different angle I could > almost agree with you and state that scientists have no plot, and > therefore they could not have lost the plot. > > However I don't believe this to be the case. > > Scientists and therefore science are primarily engaged in > 1. Making people fatter > 2. Making people richer > 3. Making people happier > 4. Making people live longer > > Other seemingly unrelated scientific activity can almost invariably be > deduced to be related to one of the above goals. For example scientists > involved in environment or climate studies are merely fulfilling one of > four basic goals of science. In fact all money that is poured into > science ultimately revolves around these goals > > A brief consideration of the above goals reveals that they all have > limits and once those limits are reached there is nowhere to go other > than to search for more people to co-opt into those goals. > > shiv > > > > Apologies Shiv, I seem to have missed a bit of the thread earlier and didn't realize that my "they" is you.
I'm a scientist, but I don't think most what I do has any direct impact on people at all. My work (understanding how evolution works, in a nutshell) makes some people happy and some angry, but mostly people don't care. The state of the human body or mind is certainly not a goal that drives my work, at any rate. I'm still unsure what agenda or plot am I following (or losing), apart from trying to understand what I find curious.
