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As the smoke cleared, Edmund Storms <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > It is truly amazing and scary to see how much power and influences the > skeptics have. Most ordinary people could not cause the suppression > these people can accomplish. For example, Pons was hounded out of the > Univ. of Utah, Bockris came close to losing his Distinguished > Professorship position, Miley lost funding from the DOE and almost lost > his job as editor of Fusion Technology, and Hagelstein was denied > tenure, all because of their interest in CF . Apparently academic > freedom only operates in theory at many universities. And the exact same thing can be said about [bourgeois] "Democracy". (That's with a capital "D", BTW.) > I think an interesting study could be made of why skepticism has so > much power compared to what is claimed to be good science based on an > open minded evaluation of observation. Why are people who clearly > violate the standards of science, rational discussion, and honesty > given any influence at all? This question has an especially obvious > application to politics. > > Ed This is because the claimed goals of bourgeois Science are not the REAL goals of bourgeois Science. It's really very simple, eh? As long as you are looking at things with clear eyes. - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoMlxcACgkQXo3EtEYbt3Et8wCg2k2q1VC5cLlGaxy8Qx73nlQ3 izIAmgK01pnOAssvdP+zV+3aOj5ZPklG =dk0o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
