Who is it who has painted capital as omnipotent? Not I. 

Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/


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> The existence of science reflects the resistance by scientists. But
> increasingly much of that has been co-opted by science-for-profit
> schemes, as in the pharmaceutical industry, or by science-for-war
> schemes.
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> Except that has nothing to do with deskilling and enforcement of
> mediocrity. The seamy underbelly of science has been with us since
> Galileo. Resistance ain't a one way street, so the incessant
> painting of
> capital as omnipotent in order to justify one's cynicism is
> self-defeating.

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