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"I wonder if this is true, and ALL scientists do indeed refer to this part of the human genome as 'junk', and that that's indicative of a really BAD attitude on their part - or whether this is a sweeping generalisation intended to smear the scientific approach even as YH$WH's post ends with an attempt to deny this is what he is doing? I'm no Lurid Archive, but even I have a feeling that perhaps science is not so mean and horrid as YH$WH is making out, and I have a suspicion that 30 seconds worth of Googling might demonstrate this."?
Y'know I read this and here's what I thought:
"I wonder if I actually said that? ALL scientists? Or if I just wondered why the sequences which are not understood are referred to - in common parlance, in regular usage, very commonly, typically, even - as "junk", and not, say "mystery" DNA...and that I personally read a lot into this pejorative - 'junk' is, I think you'll agree, quite a dramatic way to refer to a large part of your blueprint because you can't immediately see what it's for - and that this is a fairly common response within the scientific community to the rather vast body of knowledge which falls outside the scope of specific investigations which are always, by necessity, restricted in their remit."
And then I checked...and - phew - I never said anything of the sort! I'm also glad to see those plucky non-evil brainy Science types have -shock!- "decided that junk DNA is not, in fact, junk after all" - emphasis mine. Well - rewrite the journals!! Junk is not junk! Black is the new White! Flyboy for Mayor!
And you know what - I never once referred to, or even implied that science is "evil" or anything of the sort. Nor that it was of no consequence, use, relevance to magic, nor anything else at all. In fact, the whole question of "evil" is not one this thread really deals with, Flybs, so where you're pouring all that in from I can only guess must be an outgrowth of your own junk DNA. Look around the coccyx area, maybe, bit lower. Who knows?
So why isn't it called "mystery" DNA, then, to actually, y'know, address my point? Wot I wrote? In this thread?
As regards the RANT of DOGMA - my JUNK BONE in my ELBOW wrote that. Fucker if you knock it. Tingles like a Spidey Sense. For, like, ages, you know?
I find the whole thread quite turvy von topsy, because, by and large, scientists have no fucking problem whatsoever using so-called-magic in their own approach to problem solving. Why all the fucking hang ups here?
Mordant - I never said it (the World) was ruled by 'reason'. I never really said what I meant by the, admittedly very weak and flawed 'Left/Right' (false) dichotomy, but I said that the Left Brain Rules. Unless we get deep into what attributes I am attributing to it, it's really a moot point, and one I should have left well out of the discussion since, as you point out, it's pretty rubbish, and old and stodgy. Though rubbish old stodgy things apparently, can be decided to be useful at the drop of a lab-coat, given ebough verification and research.
Evil - I also never said I was only using one side of my brain...as far as I can tell, there really isn't much choice in the matter. I'd gladly donate whole swathes of the rather pecualiar and delusional functioning of my own (both halves) to someone, if only I could find a grateful recipient. Who'd want that shit in there, though? I'm finding it hard enough to get rid of it as it is.
But more to the point, and right on point :
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