For a reflection (bitter) on science take a cue a result of a recent group of biologists who managed to successfully transfer the genome of a strain of bacteria in yeast cells, has changed and then re-transferred to another bacterium, a method that can be used routinely.
honestly do not agree even to define "science" results like this, unless you both agree (but I'm not) that the word science is no longer associated Scire causas but rather to manipulate reality using the technological opportunities with not-so-hidden purpose of consolidating a certain structure of social relations in which small groups have enormous wealth and power levels.
I will be objected that - even if science has often been used to carry out terrible acts - the results of research, whatever it is, can be used in different ways (A man who invents a knife to cut bread can use it to kill as well) so there is no research to be wrong, but sometimes its use.
I do not agree. For at least three reasons:
- the search is not detached from the rest of human activities and the scientist can not play around with impunity with the forces of nature by hiding behind the screen of knowledge as an end in itself, puts the responsibility of any use to engineers and wrong political, especially as research projects often start with the declared intention to create instruments of destruction (the Nobel prizes of the Manhattan Project were a bunch of murderers the same way as the crew Enola Gay);
- just like the one in which we live - based on democracy and a market economy - is not the best of all possible worlds, so the heir to the dominant epistemology of positivism is not the only path to knowledge. I'm very puzzled that 65 years from Schrödinger's essay on "What is life?" yet we continue to apply reductionism in biology in a bovine, disassembling and reassembling living beings as if they were car engines. Clearly, this epistemology is dictated more by the interests of big pharmaceutical companies that pure love of knowledge;
- at least I find it odd that relies on technology to repair damage caused in large part by technology same (global warming, pollution, new forms of labor exploitation ...), it reminds me the story of that night glazier who traveled the country by breaking the windows of the houses with stones ... in the world I would want more than to force nature to achieve its vagaries, we would work hard on himself to find ways to live in harmony within the same nature from which we all come and in whose arms each of us will rest at the end of his journey.
