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OftenBen  ·  475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics

    My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity

    does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw."

Stranger in a Strange Land

I've become convinced I'm not fit to work in medicine because people writ large would prefer spread disease and pestilence rather than let educated professionals do their necessary and life saving work. I used to suffer under false belief that sickness, disease was the one enemy all of humankind could work against. I was wrong. There are quislings who actively work on the side of pestilence.