August 28, 2006: Fire ant raft

[glatt]

Originally Posted by euchrid

Get a real job.

This is the kind of science that is great at stumbling across useful discoveries.

What if the chemical compound that triggers this increase in venom production is related to adrenaline, and winds up being exactly the compound that heart attack victims need to save their lives? You never know where science will lead.

You'd rather the scientist be stuck hugging a dead pig than working on expanding human knowledge?

[euchrid]

Originally Posted by glatt

You never know where science will lead... You'd rather the scientist be stuck hugging a dead pig than working on expanding human knowledge?

We all know where science leads. To more money for rich businessmen, who fund most of their work. Are the scientists testing the venom in fire ants to protect

Originally Posted by Beestie

infants and toddlers in the southern U.S. ?

Or might they be submitting their findings to the Army?

Science finds cures for things that are caused by the way we live; heart attacks are more common because science has 'advanced' agriculture and food production in a way that means it has less nutrional value, while mysteriously increasing the profits of certain companies. Don't tell me science 'will save us all'; science does good and bad, often simultaneously, just like 'normal' people.

Interesting that no-one (including me) stuck up for the 'naked pig lady', but if you do something similar in a white coat, people will rush to your defence. What if the naked pig lady could be said to be pushing the frontiers of human imagination and challenging our understanding of the world; what if her art installation directly inspires a scientist to find the solution to curing cancer by using dead pig tissue (scientific research has found that pig tissue and human tissue bear an uncanny similarity)?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by euchrid

snip~ What if the naked pig lady could be said to be pushing the frontiers of human imagination and challenging our understanding of the world; ~snip

Then whoever said it would be just wacko as the pig woman.