The Dark Side of Science
"Science is the only rational tool available in our quest for
knowledge, but science has become a whore. Many of the so-called scientists
today, and in history, are merely prostitutes for the powers that be. It has
to be held accountable for its lies and deceit fueled by the ideology of
these entities.
"I have and have had many scientists friends thru the years. I love their
sharpness of mind but why is it that inevitably most of them gravitate
towards a Eugenics philosophy?
"Many have told me straight up that the answer for humanity is depopulation;
too many mouth breathers is how one put it..."
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"Many of the so-called scientists today, and in history are merely
prostitutes for the powers that be."
A similar statement was made in the 1982 movie Star Trek II: the Wrath of
Khan, that scientists have always been pawns of the military.
I repeated these words in 1984, when Vaishnavaite Hindu political activist
Pariksit dasa was blaming the scientists (rather than the military!) for
creating nuclear weapons, etc. During the Vietnam War, for example, General
Curtis LeMay raised eyebrows when he claimed the atom bomb was just another
weapon!
Attacking vivisection (animal experimentation), Nina Hagen and Lene Lovitch
similarly sang in 1987:
"We all want to see through life's mystery
"The quest for knowledge is a natural activity
"But science be careful -- science be kind
"We can't go on pretending to be blind
"Those animal experiments don't make sense
"You're getting nowhere with cruelty and death
"I say ignorance was some excuse
"But not now -- you see we got the proof
"Animal testing is a dangerious game
"All systems are different -- we're not the same
"It's a terrible risk -- so no surprise
"We get wrong results -- hey what about Thalidomide?
"Abuse yourself of your own free will
"Get hurt -- get high -- get in distress
"But don't drag the animals into this mess
"No more torture! The animals are free
"The same with messing around with atomic energy
"Hey hey doctor - reincarnation
"Would you like to come back as a laboratory rat?
"Here we are coiled like a sleeping snake
"We got to expand out potential
"For God's sake
"If we want to avoid this endless human riot
"Why don't we start by changing our diet?
"Life is for living -- the animals agree
"If they were meant to be eaten
"They'd be growing on trees
"So no more torture of our furry friends
"In the name of food or scientific ends
"The pressure is on -- be antivivisection!
"All our scientists are messing up - they don't succeed
"Let the psychics tell what the spirits think we need
"Our super friends from other planets want to give advice
"But the money orientated business doesn't think that's nice
"Come on let's educate the mutated human race
"By the super power of amazing grace
"The missing link of human evolution
"Is sexuality - it needs a spiritual revolution
"My individual God identity
"Is what you've gotta meet
"It's the rhythm of the beat
"Don't kill the animals
"Don't kill the animals
"The animals are free..."
When I played that song off of PETA's Animal Liberation cassette for my
friend Greg in the late '80s, he said it reminded him of "Nemesis" by
Shriekback from a few years earlier.
"Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
"Everybody's happy as the dead come home
"Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
"No one move a muscle as the dead come home..."
In a 1996 article, "Nazis and Animals: Debunking the Myths," Roberta
Kalechofsky of Jews for Animal Rights states that Hitler "had a special
fondness for sausages and caviar, and sometimes ham," as well as "liver
dumplings."
Kalechofsky states further that the Nazis experimented on animals as well as
humans in the concentration camps:
"The evidence of Nazi experiments on animals is overwhelming. In The Dark
Face of Science, author John Vyvyan summed it up correctly: ‘The experiments
made on prisoners were many and diverse, but they had one thing in common:
all were in continuation of, or complementary to, experiments on animals.
"In every instance, this antecedent scientific literature is mentioned in
the evidence, and at Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps, human and
animal experiments were carried out simultaneously as parts of a single
programme.’"
"Many have told me straight up that the answer for humanity is depopulation;
'too many mouth breathers' is how one put it."
In the late '80s I commented from Southern California via email to pro-life
student John Morrow at Rutgers University in New Jersey (he was arguing
against abortion on liberal, secular human rights grounds) that we don't see
pro-lifers distributing condoms on campuses to reduce the demand for
abortions, what to speak of addressing the issue of "overpopulation," etc.!
A few years later, CNN ran a story about "entertainers" on campus
distributing condoms!
This led me to conclude that pro-life Christians, thinking themselves smugly
superior to the rest of the world, where there isn't any dating, nor
boyfriends/girlfriends, etc...
(they credit Christianity, rather than the past five hundred years of
secular social progress, which includes the emancipation of women, birth
control, and the sexual revolution, all of which was resisted by previous
generations of Christians, like Christians today resisting animal rights)
...find it impossible themselves to be open and honest about contraception
and fellatio!
Depopulation, huh? My friend Greg, an LGBT Catholic, once quipped
lightheartedly, "Gays keep the population down!"
In my 2006 book, The Liberal Case Against Abortion, I wrote:
"While there may be religious reasons to oppose contraception, divorce,
fornication, homosexuality, masturbation, oral sex, etc. there are no
rational, secular arguments against such practices."
If a pregnant teen goes into a Crisis Pregnancy Center, the Christians there
will not judge her for the sin of fornication, nor equate the victimless
crime of fornication with the sin of killing an unborn child.
Even pro-life Christians distinguish between victimless crimes and crimes
with victims!
And pro-life Christians aren't exactly in the forefront to legalize (or at
the very least decriminalize) prostitution to reduce the number of
abortions, either!
I wrote further that drugs and prostitution are arguably victimless as well.
Again, distinguishing abortion from victimless crimes.
Many on the religious right link their opposition to abortion to things like
school prayer, opposing LGBT rights, etc...
And to many of us on the secular left, this makes abortion look like a
"religious" issue, rather than a secular human rights issue!
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