Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-02-15]: Today we celebrate 10 years from the first decoding of the Human Genome. However, almost no progress has been achieved to the genetic medicine field despite the grand announcements. [source:
web news] This is not the first time the proponents of scientism (and not Science) fell into the trap of overstating. According to the predictions of the recent years, we should noe have robots in every household, flying cars and computers to which we could talk to. Nothing of these has happened. No matter what the cause of these failures is, one thing is for certain: less arrogance would certainly help…
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