Re: [silk] War on Science?

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 03:23, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Things like vaccination are tricky because they are not strictly science. > Science is repeatable, and things that don't work on everyone the same > don't strictly deserve the label of science. What? That's not right. It's perfectly

Re: [silk] War on Science?

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:41 PM Deepa Agashe wrote: > On the other hand, where would any of us be without drug companies producing > antibiotics and painkillers? I am not anti-science - obviously a great many things are better off due to it, and I owe my own life to science but at the same time

Re: [silk] War on Science?

> On 05-Feb-2019, at 13:32, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:24 PM Deepa Agashe > wrote: >> >> >> Scientists are not the same as pharma companies. I don’t understand exactly >> what would you like scientists to do. > > A couple of

Re: [silk] War on Science?

> It is what keeps for example homeopathy in business so .. It is the favorite whipping boy of pseudo science for the moment. Which reminds me of the water memory experiments done by another Nobel Laureate, Luc Montagnier. I don't think the science is quite settled there.

Re: [silk] War on Science?

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:24 PM Deepa Agashe wrote: > > > Scientists are not the same as pharma companies. I don’t understand exactly > what would you like scientists to do. A couple of Southernisms come to mind, you can't waller with the pigs and not get dirty, or you can't sleep with the dogs