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To: Diago
The movie I saw wasn't about eugenics. Eugenics was mentioned in passing as an interesting sidelight.

The movie is about academia being heavy handed about anyone who questions dogma, by asking questions that they can't answer.

Blackballing and attacking other academics has never been good science.

8 posted on 05/10/2008 12:13:49 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: Publius6961
The movie is about academia being heavy handed about anyone who questions dogma, by asking questions that they can't answer.

Blackballing and attacking other academics has never been good science.

Exactly. the answer to "Can you explain this" should be the answer that many Freeper Darwinists have offered: "No, I can't at this time, but that doesn't mean there is no explanation." Sometimes that answer is, IMHO, delusional, but it is a real, honest answer and at least an attempt to be intellectually valid. Instead the answer is often "You're fired."

People who are afraid of questions are afraid of more than questions, in my experience.

10 posted on 05/10/2008 12:44:18 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: Publius6961
The movie is about academia being heavy handed about anyone who questions dogma, by asking questions that they can't answer

That's the movie I saw too.

12 posted on 05/10/2008 1:39:49 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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