I paid a visit to the doctor today. He confirmed for me that peace of mind is certainly worth forty plus travel expenses – I'm just relieved that their fees aren't higher. We're fortunate that nature so often leaves obvious evidence of our afflictions, whether they're benign or not.
Even in the seemingly blank slate of our nascent minds we find its many traces, a flexibility that allows us as many professionals to interpret them. It's out-of-character that our scientific elite are so late to this lesson that our prodigious quacks learned long ago – and have been practising ever since.
The latest flame these charlatans have been fanning for our great moth circus of a media is of course the immunisation debauchery; it's too generous to call it a 'debate.' Merely by commenting I join the audience, but surely there are creative ways to show dissent.
For one, we have bigger flames – heck, Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. What cheek the religious establishment show when they call us arrogant for advertising our achievements. You can't hide hypocrisy by preaching a disembodied creator of the universe. They only got a reformation, we attained enlightenment.
We can't expect them to be perturbed by the recent creation of artificial life; after all, we haven't been able to sidestep that law of thermodynamics and create something out of nothing. Although our ancestors – by their inventions – helped make their ideas impregnable, we can still make ours shine brighter.
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