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On 21 Mar 2001, at 10:36, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> Galileo.
>
Giordano Bruno.
> > ----------
> > 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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