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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2880" style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2881" face="Calibri">I read with interest May Berenbaum’s <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2882" style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(5/7) conclusion that the March for Science “was
not about scientists as a special interest group—it was … in support of science
as an economic engine for the state and the nation, as a force for fairness and
justice, and as a defining dimension of our community's character.”</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2883" style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2884" face="Calibri">However, scientific research as such is at best neutral in
relation to these endeavors, and at worst subject to complicity with economic
exploitation, social inequality, and resulting effects on community character,
including those which result from perpetual aggressive wars.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2885" style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2886" face="Calibri">Societies noted for their advanced science and technology
perpetrated the Holocaust, invaded Vietnam, and enforce apartheid in occupied Palestine.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2887" style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2888" face="Calibri">In the midst of the Vietnam War, our greatest cognitive
scientist and political dissident, Noam Chomsky, wrote “It is the
responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies. This, at
least, may seem enough of a truism to pass over without comment. Not so,
however. For the modern intellectual, it is not at all obvious.”</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2889" style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2890" face="Calibri">During the subsequent half-century, neoliberal policies supported
by “the best and brightest” have determined that American workers can no longer
be allowed to produce their consumer items; can no longer afford what they do
produce without indebtedness; and can no longer be allowed free higher (including
scientific) education. But scientific research continues apace, especially that
which leads reliably to corporate profit, but only randomly to general
progress.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2891" style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1495030644477_2892" face="Calibri">This critique may seem far afield from entomology, but
perhaps it shouldn’t be.</font></div>
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