Comments on: Genetically Loaded Pupfish https://www.isegoria.net/2013/06/genetically-loaded-pupfish/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:14:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Steve Johnson https://www.isegoria.net/2013/06/genetically-loaded-pupfish/comment-page-1/#comment-886936 Steve Johnson Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:12:01 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31909#comment-886936 “In fact, Marris and her husband, philosopher Yasha Rohwer, have found that more than 100 scientific papers treat the preservation of genetic integrity as some kind of manifestly obvious duty. But, they wrote, it ain’t necessarily so.”

The Cathedral has its justification to hand out money and micro slices of power and scientists have a part to play too – they had better keep cranking out those papers or who knows what might happen to that grant money.

Who in the process has any incentive to care about whether the goals are sensible? Just a few fools with integrity who take the rhetoric seriously.

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