Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA08085 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:39:41 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745CFC@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:36:26 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Galileo.
> ----------
> From: wilkins
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:23 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme
>
> <<File: wilkins.vcf>>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> John Wilkins, Head, Graphic Production, The Walter and Eliza Hall
> Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
> Homo homini aut deus aut lupus - Erasmus of Rotterdam
> <http://www.users.bigpond.com/thewilkins/darwiniana.html>
>
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