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It is a good article. Right up to this part anyway: "There was a man in the last century who practiced top-down science with harrowing consequences. His ideology came first, and science had to fit it. He denounced the important genetic studies of Mendel as the work of "enemies" — not exactly the language of science. He insisted, among other things, that wheat plants could bear rye seeds. His notions sent real scientists to exile and execution and condemned whole populations to starve. He wasn't a scientist himself but he played one at the Kremlin. His name was Trofim Lysenko, and his ideology was communism." Why? Why, why, why, why, why does he feel the need to bring politics into it? This is part of the problem, people sticking in their two cents about something that is entirely irrelevant. If the religious would keep their noses out of science instead of trying to tell scientists what to do or believe then we wouldn't be in this mess. And there is absolutely no need to bring politics into it. That's just asking for trouble. Breandán -- _______________________________________________ For the largest FREE email in Ireland (25MB) and 20MB of online file storage space - Visit http://www.campus.ie Powered by Outblaze
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