Scientists under attack
Ask a question, find a problem, question the process...you're attacked, you're threatened and your career is over...if not your life.
Sounds like the climate warming tactics? If they were on the up and up...why would they resort to gorilla tactics?
They have no idea how it effects us because they've never checked, watched or I suggest...cared.
Are they moral or immoral in their actions in the Ayn Rand world.
Sounds like the climate warming tactics? If they were on the up and up...why would they resort to gorilla tactics?
They have no idea how it effects us because they've never checked, watched or I suggest...cared.
Are they moral or immoral in their actions in the Ayn Rand world.
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You don't speak for everyone when you cannot speak for yourself first.
There are only natural substances, anyway. Just because a human creates a substance does not make it unnatural. How can a natural cause such as a human produce something that is not part of reality, nature?
Actually, Rand did not mean that you can actually avoid reality, since reality is not out there dictating what you can or cannot do, but that if you want to act physically or understand reality, reality must be obeyed. There are no actions that can be contrary to reality. A real result comes from any action, but not what you might wrongly believe for the result.
One just gets into a tied up mind by considering that human caused stuff is somehow not natural.
The natural versus human caused consideration is part of the basis for the human-is-evil and should be wiped from the Earth mentality.
People are living longer and more are saved from disease than ever before. There are more cases of dementia an Alzheimer's because people live longer and are not getting it younger. New possible treatment for amyloid plaque is in lab test stage. Seems that cannabinoids may remove the plaque in lab tests. Would be really good if it pans out since one of my dad's sisters died of it at age 60 and my dad had dementia at my age of 76.
If a gene is used to produce a specific protein and does produce that protein whether in a plant or animal and the body can usefully use it, does it matter whether it gets it from the plant or animal? What would matter is how neighboring genes and junk DNA might affect the expression of the gene in the different life forms.
As for allopathic medicine, which is the usual medicine: suppose a means to turn on apoptosis in cancer cells were to be found. That would be contrary to the chemistry of the body and be allopathic medicine. Would you run from the cure because it would be allopathic in nature and require some kind of homeopathic medicine, either in minute doses or in larger doses?
You are what, about 60, just getting near the stage of life where little health problems become more numerous because there is a large chance component to the biochemistry of the body. I was fine until 74 when atherosclerosis made its nasty entrance. Have genetically related low HDL which stays at about 40 when it should be near 60. New drugs in testing stage are being dropped so far. They raise HDL to a desired level but did not reduce the rate of new heart attacks.
Is there any way to eat which is not natural? Should mankind stop thinking of how to improve life and go natural? Does the biochemistry of the body choose between glucose and fructose and other simple sugars depending whether they come from a natural source or not? Does the biochemistry of the body distinguish between a natural protein and get all whiny over a protein made from a GM gene?
Ayn rand said it this way.
You can avoid reality...but you cannot avoid the consequenses of avoiding reality.
Reality is putting unnatural substances into the body is not good for us.
Just be careful my friend...we are rationally self interested in enjoying your company.
Oh...I am healthy...largely because I eat as natural as I can and take charge of my own health...meaning, I've stepped away from the prescription drugs, allopathic practitioners and the "Sickness Symptom, careless system".
...still think they're innocent?
reading a warning in the '70's (or was it a threat?)
about "nuclear winter" , and now the warning
is just the opposite. It looks like they'll do anything to destroy industry and keep man from surviving on earth.
During the 70s I could jog 4 miles, one mile farther than required by my previous Marine Corps physical training.
During the 80s I could rock n' roll as a prison guard at a tough maximum security joint.
During the late 90s I had my first attack of arthritis (brought on by a kick to a body bag) and learned I had 3 fused vertebrae.
It's all been downhill for the old dough boy ever since.
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