[extropy-chat] Scientists and engineers must work within the system

[Rik van Riel]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> This effectively says that scientists and engineers must play politics
> instead of doing science and engineering.  If so then this is a symptom
> of an incredibly broken system that needs to be repaired as quickly as
> possible.   Simply playing the broken system may do little more than
> legitimize the brokenness and leave one's own work undone.

However, the only way of fixing the system is to play
politics.  Oh, the irony...

Rik
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