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En Garde, whole no. 16, January 1946
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page 9. being driven out of their bases and back towards their own galaxy. The time for Joe Eager and his ship to move on towards the battle zone rapidly approached. The crew worked feverishly to perfect its training. The final physical exams were given, and it was found that Joe Eager was allergic to the new synthetic foods that had just become standard for field use. He was yanked out of the crew, and as he watched his old ship embark for battle, he boarded a liner for Betelgeuse IV. There he shoveled gravel for several more weeks, and was finally assigned to the Medical School at Alpha Centauri III. He studied to be a medical assistant for six months. The day before he graduated the war ended and everybody ran around the streets shouting: "Hubba Hubba!" By that time Joe didn't give a damn what the hell happened. SCIENCE IS COMMITTING ENORMITIES By Captain Donn Brazier The following quotation from Aldous Huxley's "Time Must Have A Stop" could probably be utilized in an article on vivisection, but I'm too lazy to write it right now. I sort of wore out my enthusiasm for anti-vivisection when a sophomore in high school; built up a very impassioned and violent speech from the material gathered from a semi-religious publication called THE GOLDEN AGE, and delivered the speech before the class. " 'Cutting bits off frogs and mice, grafting cancer into rabbits, boiling things together in test tubes -- just to see what'll happen, just for the fun of the thing. Wantonly committing enormities -- that's all science is.' " What do you say to that? One of Huxley's characters made the speech; he, himself, may or may not believe that. Is that all science is?
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page 9. being driven out of their bases and back towards their own galaxy. The time for Joe Eager and his ship to move on towards the battle zone rapidly approached. The crew worked feverishly to perfect its training. The final physical exams were given, and it was found that Joe Eager was allergic to the new synthetic foods that had just become standard for field use. He was yanked out of the crew, and as he watched his old ship embark for battle, he boarded a liner for Betelgeuse IV. There he shoveled gravel for several more weeks, and was finally assigned to the Medical School at Alpha Centauri III. He studied to be a medical assistant for six months. The day before he graduated the war ended and everybody ran around the streets shouting: "Hubba Hubba!" By that time Joe didn't give a damn what the hell happened. SCIENCE IS COMMITTING ENORMITIES By Captain Donn Brazier The following quotation from Aldous Huxley's "Time Must Have A Stop" could probably be utilized in an article on vivisection, but I'm too lazy to write it right now. I sort of wore out my enthusiasm for anti-vivisection when a sophomore in high school; built up a very impassioned and violent speech from the material gathered from a semi-religious publication called THE GOLDEN AGE, and delivered the speech before the class. " 'Cutting bits off frogs and mice, grafting cancer into rabbits, boiling things together in test tubes -- just to see what'll happen, just for the fun of the thing. Wantonly committing enormities -- that's all science is.' " What do you say to that? One of Huxley's characters made the speech; he, himself, may or may not believe that. Is that all science is?
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