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Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster



On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:15, will trillich wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:02:09AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > Hal Vaughan wrote: Alchemists had three generally accepted
[snip]
> > Is there a parallel to alchemy in the modern world?
> 
> aids research, and cancer research, to name a few. the moment
> anybody thinks they've got a cure, they'll disappear so their
> bosses will be able to keep the house in the hamptons. too big a
> business, by now, to be shut down by actual success.

Do you have any proof of this illogical assertion?

Logic: people are going to be getting cancer for a long, long time, 
so the money made from all those sick people will be magnatudes greater
than any money recieved, from say, research grants.   Besides, there's
always something else to cure...

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