One response to the manifest implication of science in certain kinds of destruction is to say that we need more science, or more and better science. I am inclined to honor this proposition, if I am allowed to add that we also need more than science. But I am not at all inclined to honor the proposition that ‘science is self-correcting’ when it implies that science is thus made somehow ‘safe.’ Science is no more safe than any other kind of knowledge. And especially it is not safe in the context of its gigantic applications by the corporate mind. Nor is it safe in the context of its own
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