Tag: Science
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Posterity — Why Should I Care?
Attributed mainly to Groucho Marx, the quote: “Why should I care for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?” has turned into quite a philosophical debate. The two little questions, if read merely on the surface, make a lot of sense. Why should it matter to me what happens to the universe and its…
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The Grey Irony — Featuring Dr James Watson
Background problem: Racism in the use of genomics Case in Point: Dr James Watson of Watson and Crick Model fame, a Nobel laureate if you please. Also, the founding director of the ever-famous public Human Genome Project What Happened: Talking about the “prospects of Africa,” he made the following remarks to the interviewers in 2007: “All…