Posts by giovanni tiso
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But nobody is advocating research without ethical oversight.
Besides, Mengele's experiments were carried out with ethical oversight. It just happened to be the ethics of Nazis. Whereas now I think the concern is that foremost in the mind of the researchers are the needs of corporations (including state-owned commercial entities) and that in the long term these objectives can run counter to the social good, therefore strong regulations must be put in place to restore the balance. I don't think the principle is wrong, but then of course the issue becomes how you manage it in practice, and whether politicians and the public can evaluate the merits of a scientific enterprise in a rational fashion. Our collective scientific illiteracy plays a big part in this.
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John and Phil: Tomorrow, could you guys try not to make me thoroughly ashamed of my government?
I think you'll find that Phil is not part of the government.
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He doesn't really have the courage of anyone's convictions, least of all his own.
What would those be?
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Well, yes, CR, I do take your point insofar as the Communist Party's anti-comics crusade
That's a first post on a new page where you have to go back to page 1 to see if you've somehow changed threads or missed a page or something.
If the refence was to the thing about literacy and the masses, I'm sure Craig was meant to excoriate Pope Pius IX, the sworn enemy of universal public education.
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But please, just please when there is something genuinely good happening... stand back and give the credit to those who actually did something good.
Dwarf wheat! Dwarf wheat! Norman Borlaug! Dwarf wheat!
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Well, yes, CR, I do take your point insofar as the Communist Party's anti-comics crusade
Wait. What?
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Family First's line is that mothers should stay home with their children until they go to school,
The father should be where, in the garage? I could use some specific instructions here.
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Transfarmers!
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Are there any young talents in the squad who could be given a run?
Nah. There's a young player who wasn't selected for being a bit of a troublemaker - Balotelli - and an older one who wasn't selected for having kicked the young one in the dying stages of the season - Totti. Other than that, that was the talent available. They are a willing group (10 shots v. Paraguay, 24 v. New Zealand, they do go forward) but badly lacking a good number 10 and a clinical finisher, for sure.
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And they said it shouldn't be done.