> On 05-Feb-2019, at 13:32, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:24 PM Deepa Agashe <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 and not get fleas.
>
> Scientists are not blameless either as the profusion of less than
> credible papers that fill more than half of the journals shows. A
> scientist or an artist or a monk is ideally a moral champion, but in
> none of these professions is it a certainty.
>
> Drug companies would fold up if no scientist would go work for them for
> example.
>
> Science is not more vulnerable to human failings than other ventures,
> but because science holds the reins of power, it is capable of great
> violence. When religion held the reins it did the same, as did any
> other organized branch of progress.
>
> In the end the nomenclature doesn't matter to me, but it does to a
> whole lot of people who defend that vaccination is science, because it
> immediately lends vaccination a gravitas that is far more than it
> deserves.
>
Point taken.
On the other hand, where would any of us be without drug companies producing
antibiotics and painkillers?
All of us need each other. The best we can do is sort through the evidence and
try to prevent unfair gains.
