[alice wellintown]

in other words, rather than argue against what I've argued, which is, that
science is the new religion, the greatest risk to life on Earth, the
P-Lister elected to distort my argument and recast it as an atack on people
who work in science or scientists.


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:11 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:

> ad hominem?
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> 2013/4/15 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
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>> "....the greater risk is science itself because it knows no limits. It
>> cannot sin, there are no transgressions, the sacred is not a mystery but a
>> profane puzzle to be solved and then exploited."
>> Solved, then exploited? Jeepers, harsh. Also rather unlike any
>> practitioner of science I know of or respect.
>>
>> Poor argument. The risk, I said, is science, not scientists. In fact,
>> I said the risk is science itself. So, to distort my position, you twisted
>> it into ad-hominum. Try again?
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