grr

[sabine]

This article is pretty interesting. I'm not enough of a neuroscientist to understand if what they say is true, but it looks like an interesting system. If it works, spiffy. If it doesn't, the ever-suspicious public is going to instigate an uproar condemning the research as useless and cruel to the animals.

I'd like to take a moment here to politely, maturely, and calmly issue a rebuttal against those who feel the need to protest science topics.

Shut. the Fuck. Up.

Until you truly understand, inside and out, the mechanisms and possible outcomes of any given system, keep your mouth shut and read. Educate yourself. Prepare intelligent arguments. Don't give me the, "God didn't mean for us to tamper with His work." Bull. shit. If God didn't want us to learn science, there'd be many more lightning bolts striking people. That, or we wouldn't be smart enough or curious enough to figure it out.

Science is a tool. That's all. Like any tool, the user is the one that gives it purpose and "morality". A hammer can be used to build a house. It can also be used to beat someone to death. Science is the same. We can learn how to cure and how to create disease. Those two go hand in hand. That's why we have this concept called "Ethics".

Grr.



Quotes of the Moment
Nothing else matches the exhilaration of helping to conceive, plan and create something that has no purpose other than to give people pleasure.
-- Richard Rodgers

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei