28 APR 2012 by ideonexus

 Greed Mutates Science into Pseudoscience

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
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It transmogrifies astronomy into astrology.

03 SEP 2011 by ideonexus

 Humans Have a Balance of Cooperative and Egoistic Tendencies

... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendenc...
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"...human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself."