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Hank Greely: The Experiment that Shocked Science

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Science in General, or the People Who Are Actually Doing Things That Might Be of Questionable Value?

There have been scientists who have expressed the idea that it's not their job to judge the value of what they're doing. Jenifor dowden did that early on, raised the note of caution about crisper. And by contrast, one of the reasons richard fineman worked on the atomic bomb during the war was that while they were making the bomb, all the scientists at losalamos were excited about solving the problem and excited by that alone. It was only after they saw the results of the terrible explosions that occurred in the death of so many people, that they began reflecting on it. I forget if i am now become death, or something like a phrase like that, from

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