Re: LIFESCIENCE: The Clone Age : Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology

["Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard" <B.Richard@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de>]

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> i think the last time we assumed that scientific endeavour was not
> ultimately motivated by profit and  power was in 1950. science is a market
> industry like any other, and as such serves the adgenda of a minority. i'm
> not suggesting that individuals within this arena don't have " pure" or
> humanitarian motives, but that research into fields or illness where there
> is no obvious profit to be made or no product to be exploited arent
> economically justifable, therefore don't often happen.
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> by limiting the parenting of scientific ideas/research/development by
> ecomomic selection, we get  fairly inbreed offspring,  which is sort of
> cloning ourselves into a tunnel of even narrower perspectives.
>
> melinda rackham
> http://www.subtle.net

Dear Melinda,
What do you especially mean with the last time scientific endeavour was not
motivated by profit was in the 1950ties, that sounds interesting, do you have
an example for that?
It is absolutely right that especially artists and other socially responsible
thinking people should not leave the field of biotechnology to the industries.
They should have the possibility to create alternative forms of live.

birgit richard
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