Under this sort of reasoning almost any educational or First Amendment issue could be grouped under the Free Culture category. I can't imagine it would be useful to have such a broad mission for this organization. The NOVA special was very interesting, though.
On Nov 12, 2007 7:25 PM, Peter Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 7:48 PM -0500 11/12/07, Fred Benenson wrote: > >Hi, I know this seems like something most people on this list might > >be interested in, but it's really not on topic with respect to Free > >Culture, so it's really not appropriate for this list. > > > >Hope you understand & Thanks! > > > >Fred > > I understand that it's borderline, and has an argument against it that it > could start an argument about the merits of ID, which definitely would be > off-topic. > > But consider the situation in which you live in a theocracy where > religious > tenets are deployed routinely to interfere with science. Such theocracies > exist, but the United States is not one of them. Nevertheless, for > someone > in that situation interference with science in this fashion is as much a > free > culture issue as open access to knowledge. > > (I will now step off my soapbox :-) > > peter > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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