Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to (Monsanto) Roundup; kills remaining queens

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39. And think about the other fact that this news piece demonstrates - the Big Agri firms

Now control science. Who do you think offers up our universities the monies for their research? How long would some grad student last if he protests? How long would that grad students' research last if he or she does not make that research favorable tot he story that the Big Industry paying for the research wants to hear? ?

And people are so dumbed down it is incredible. Recently a panel of industry bought-and-paid of scientists decided that you no longer need to do scientific research on a matter - simply look over the publications in a certain field on a certain topic, and figure out how many articles and papers support Theory X, as opposed to how many support Theory Y. Whichever theory has the higher number of supporting articles wins! So that means that industry always wins - because industry always has more money, more paid for scientists,. more university labs, etc.

That is not science - that is rubbish! If that way of handling scientific research had been utilized by Governor Davis back when the MTBE gas additive issue was involving many activists day and night, we in California would not have had the Blue Ribbon Panel assembled to do real research and then determine that the gas additive presented more risk to the public than benefit.

Yet many here totally approve of the "count up the published paper" theories of science!