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To: miraje who wrote (47197)	2/1/2014 11:50:45 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86363

I had to look him up: ... Floyd Ferris is, of course, a major villain in the novel. He is also a type of any scientist who willfully places his talents in the service of the government and not only understands the full implications of such a policy, but fully embraces them. Robert Stadler is a naïve scientist who actually believes that government-supported "pure scientific" investigation is noble. Floyd Ferris does not try to be noble at all. Like John Galt, Ferris understands, as Robert Stadler does not, that all science must have a practical purpose in order to have value at all. Unlike John Galt, Floyd Ferris prefers to devote his talents to destruction, rather than construction. Life imitating art John Holdren, the new science czar in the Barack Hussein Obama administration, has proposed many policy initiatives that are remarkably similar to those of Floyd Ferris. He has never gone so far as to advocate summary execution of the aged and infirm, but he has in fact suggested mandatory abortion, even in the United States, as a means of population control. [1] conservapedia.com