<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The trouble is that you are very short on the how this can be accomplished. Clearly scientists cannot banish everyone's worry and convince everyone of what is and is not of concern or sufficiently controlled. Clearly the majority are easily swayed by fear mongers and power-lusters. So without strong anti-politicalization of research and scientific knowledge by those of us with some measure of understanding the forces of paranoia and other darkness are likely to prevail. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 18, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 10/18/05, <B class="gmail_sendername">The Avantguardian</B> <<A href="mailto:avantguardian2020@yahoo.com">avantguardian2020@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Do you think putting MORE restrictions on scientists<BR>will make them LESS likely to use their knowledge to<BR>attempt to overthrow a system whose corruption is more<BR>obvious to them than to the average citizen?</BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR> Did you read the 80% of my post where I explained at length that one of the reasons I'm troubling to say all this is precisely that I think the world would be safer if we could _avoid_ a situation where the public decides it needs yet more government regulation to forcibly prevent scientists doing dangerous things?<BR> <BR> - Russell<BR> </DIV></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>