Posted on 04/18/2016 6:44:09 AM PDT by Fitzy_888
Sometimes, the right thing is done for a the wrong reason. Kennedy only wanted to get to the moon as a political achievement. He wasn’t interested otherwise.
However, many, if not all, of us benefitted and still benefit by the push of math and science in the late 1950’s and into the 1960’s.
It’s quite possible that the effects of conventional treatments have been overstated and others, understated. Another problem is that there isn’t just one ailment called cancer any more than there is just one ailment called a fever. The medicine that cures one fever might not even touch another fever.
I wish you a victory over your illness by any morally acceptable means. If standing on your head and snorting cactus juice does the trick, then by all means do it.
Agreed. The problem with “science” is that people forget it is not just “climate change”, or looking for the “God particle”, or finding out about “dark matter”.
There are many areas of science that are still flourishing today. But the problem is that in other areas, careers are not in jeopardy for being wrong, but are in jeopardy due to losing funding sources for not coming up with the “correct” answer.
No class of people is beyond lying, stabbing colleagues in the sck, punishing whistleblowers, lynching those who wont go along with their programs and agendas. Trying to destroy those that they regard as enemies.
All people are flawed and sinful. All prone to do things that are not above board. The type of scrutiny and built in checks and balances they have to live with combined with personal morals, and the consequences set up for those discovered to be lying/corrupt, is what helps people stay honest and do the right things.
Well said.
Let me add that I’m not justifying the falsehoods.
However, there was a legitimate arms race going on at the time. Yes, it might have been overblown at the beginning, but as time went on, the USSR did surpass us in terms of numbers with their weaponry. Had the US decided not to act at that time, we would be looking at a much different 1980’s than we had.
This is designed to get grant money from the gubmint, so Jr. won't have to get a real job.
Bookmark.
The problem with Big Science is that the big research money is sponsored by entities that expect certain results...that favor their cause.
Ironically, that is the same speech where Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. We hear that quote all the time yet his warning about science being controlled by government funding is only a paragraph or two later in the same speech.
In a nutshell, a proper publication or other announcement of an experimental result is a challenge - "I dare you to prove me wrong, if you can".
Now, the challenge is, "If you DARE to try to prove me wrong, I will have your career ended".
No science can happen under that type of threat.
Sounds like another opportunity to apologize.
I would like to apologize for Obama someday. But the list of accusations, I mean apologies, is so long.
I have an extremely rare case. It’s not been seen before. I quickly discovered that docs just wanted to treat me so that they could be associated with my case.
I would love to know the doctor and the hospital. I bet I can guess the hospital. I worked at a prestigious cancer hospital in the 80s, and the guy I worked for faked his work, or at least plagiarized it. I left that job quickly and found other research work nearby. Feel free to pm me if that’s ok.
Government Academia complex?
Because it isn't true. Identical twin studies prove homosexuality is not genetic
I see that I’m not the first person to think of global warming.
As I recall, no one was able to reproduce Michael Mann’s work. He wouldn’t divulge his methods lest deniers attack his work.
Have you seen the video series “The Truth About Cancer”? It illustrates the absurdity of conventional cancer treatment.
97% of scientists think this article is bunk.
False, but true?
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