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23rd Dec '12 12:20:28 PM Galloglasses

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** In actual fact, in both real life and in fiction, Science is Bad is more accurately labeled as scientists are bad. Science is a process, a tool if you want an analogy. Most of the bad things about science is really down to how it is used. Usually in movies this is shown as scientists being pressured by the military/government/corporation/something that isnt the scientists themselves to use science to do evil. Or otherwise its a Mad Scientist analogy. While I hate to use the Banality of Evil argument this isn't actually so, the most harm science can do is not when a Scientist is being a well intentioned extremist or a mad scientist but when the scientist in question in the work simply does not care, uses vague ethical sounding language whose meanings are not only not concrete, but completely fluid and mean whatever he wishes and ignores the moral and philosophical concerns out of sheer hubris, (while being completely rational minded, a mad scientist not only doesn't care but is usually out to prove something or takes perverse pleasure in the evil done or is genuinely mad). Alot of insightful discoveries have been made, (Pavlov's experiments, the Skinner box and several other psychological conditioning experiments usually involving what many today would consider outright torture), while most of the world either had no idea what was going on or simply had not developed the concepts to understand the full implications of what has been down and is essentially some scientists seeing how much they can get away with before petty things like legal and moral concerns catch up to them and often justify their actions retroactively. The redefinition of death from cardio-respiratory to brain death for example, while raising genuine medical concerns about when exactly death occurs, was, for example, largely motivated by the desire to gain more donor organs rather then solving the legitimate scientific puzzle.

3rd Oct '12 1:11:42 PM DCC

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4th Sep '12 4:13:33 PM mlsmithca

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Removing wick to Did Not Do The Research per rename at TRS.

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31st Jul '12 5:34:29 AM FELH2

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Changing namespace, yeah

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20th Jul '12 4:11:28 AM FELH2

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** The left-brained person being more logical and analytical vs. the right-brained person being creative and artistic is total HollywoodPsychology, incidentally. Which side of your brain is larger depends mostly on whether you are right- or left-handed; righties are always left-brained (their right side of the brain is slightly larger) because the motor and sensory cortexes for the right side of your body are located on the left side of your brain. Lefties are about half right-brained and half left-brained, for reasons not fully understood. (For this reason they're normally excluded from neurological experimental groups.) In general, most structures in the brain are fairly symmetrical, which is good because there's a treatment for particularly bad epilepsy that involves having [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy half of the brain removed]] and while there are some negative effects, mostly related to sensory and motor issues with the side of the body, personality changes are notably not one of them. There are some exceptions to this, notably involving language comprehension, but there are no known links between personality and hemisphere dominance.

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18th Jul '12 12:11:55 PM Stoogebie

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18th Jul '12 12:10:14 PM Stoogebie

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29th Jun '12 11:31:32 AM LordGro

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