Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA05920 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:28:44 GMT Message-ID: <3AB7D859.FBF13584@wehi.edu.au> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:23:20 +1100 From: wilkins <wilkins@wehi.EDU.AU> Organization: The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76C-CCK-MCD (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme References: <JJEIIFOCALCJKOFDFAHBKEHKCHAA.richard@brodietech.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------99B559044307F3005EEEE4D3" Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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Richard Brodie wrote:
>
> Science is most certainly not memeless. It is a set of carefully crafted
> memes designed to produce reliable knowledge and theories through
> observation and hypothesis. People have died to propagate the memes of
> science.
>
Who, exactly? Are you referring to the Minchurist-Lysenkoist movements?
Or to what deaths? I can think of several candidates but not many who
died *because* of their memes.
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