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To: ManyMoose who wrote (336148)11/28/2009 2:09:20 PM
From: Brumar891 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793972
 
"any eco-related scare for which the prescription would result in a massive transfer of power to the political class is bogus"

Good quote by programmer Eric Raymond

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To: ManyMoose who wrote (336148)11/29/2009 6:18:53 AM
From: Tom Clarke6 Recommendations  Respond to of 793972
 
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded."

"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address