Subject:  (Reuss) (Carney) Re U.S. cynical about government..... (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 6 May 1999 164651 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:31:45 +0200
From: Christoph Reuss 
To: EMF-L 
Cc: Deb Carney 
Subject: Re: (Carney) Re: U.S. cynical about government..... (fwd)

On Wed, 05 May 1999, Deb Carney wrote:
> I think that the Supreme Court bears a responsiblility for this cynicism by
> allowing judges to throw out expert testimony based upon criteria such as
> "scientific consensus".  Here is what that means.  During the time of Galeleo,
> the scientific consensus was that the world was flat.  Galeleo would not have
> gotten to even present his ideas to the jury because his view of the world was
> a minority opinion.  But Galeleo spoke the truth.
...
> If all society lived by the tyranny of scientific consensus, we would not move
> forward.

I think the problem is not in the science but in its domination by religion.
In Galileo's times, religion dictated that the Earth is flat and the sun
revolves around it.  Today (in the U.S.), the dominant religion is $$$$$,
and this religion dictates that EMR is harmless....

Cheerio,
Chris
(not a believer in any religion)


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