Here's an article from a magazine called SCIENCE. It's about a book that describes how capitalism fights science.
If you can't blow this up big enough to read, I can email it to you.
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Ugh! I can begin to imagine
Cloudia - We need another Sherman Anti-Trust Act before the corporations own everything.
Scientists can be bought off like (most) everyone else. Doesn't take an Einstein to figure that out.
Oy ... two more books I need to find at the library. At the rate I'm going, I'll need to live to be 397 to read everything on my list, assuming I close the list now.
Capitalism fights anything and anyone which might reduce its profits.
Of course it fights science - look at cigarettes. Doctors knew decades before warnings that cigarettes caused lung cancer but that industry was powerful. Happening today with climate change ( we've known about that since the late 1970's) and the junk/processed food industry (science has known how bad that shit is for you for ages - cured meat is a class 1 carcinogen). But industry funds its own research, with the outcomes already determined to be favorable toward them. So it is always important with research studies to look for the conflict of interest by acknowledging who is funding it.
Kirk - And it only takes a couple of them for the junk sellers to say science is on our side.
Bill - I thought about you when it mentioned a book. And then there was ANOTHER book!
Deb - Very very true.
Lady - That's why I always cheer on Democratic Socialism with REGULATED Capitalism.
I enlarged it and still needed a magnifying glass to discover I can't read it. Probably not important to me anyhow.
River - I emailed you a copy. I don't want you to miss out.
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