Scientific Progress

[juan]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:03:00 -0700
Razer <rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:

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> 
> On 10/25/2016 05:24 AM, John Newman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> On Oct 25, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Tom <tom at vondein.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:36:30PM -0400, Kevin Gallagher wrote:
> >>> They are blind enough to believe that their "advances" help
> >>> society, despite them actually shifting the balance of power away
> >>> from the people.
> >>
> >> The point of science is to find answers to open questions and by
> >> doing so gain knowledge. Seriously, science is not the enemy. It
> >> were not the enemy in 1641 and it isn't today.
> > 
> > For real. +100 (as comrade Alex would say)
> 
> > 
> > Take that view point around here and you will be called absurd shit
> > like a "scientific truther" =)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> 
> So let me hear you deny the state of science is often contaminated,
> perverted and raped by the science of the state.
> 
> I BELIEVE that's a major topic of discussion here.

	Indeed.


> How the GOVERNMENT
> funds COMPUTER SCIENCE making it's 'industrial output' to the end user
> SUSPECT.

	And not only computer science.


> 
> That's because scientists on the GOVERNMENT DOLE don't really do much
> in the way of free inquiry,

	Indeed.


> and I'll re-state, from another thread,
> why... aside from the need to keep a roof over your head and not end
> up the academic variant of 'the slandering of ioerror', by hostile
> 'colleagues':

 
> 'Peer-review eats one's mind. Like the earwig in that Night Gallery
> episode.' Or perhaps more apropos, this >
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OofMJ6cwzLM
> 
> H/t grarpamp for the link...
> 
> Rr