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[MEXICO CITY] Recent bomb attacks targeting Mexican scientists have been orchestrated by a radical group that opposes nanotechnology and may be planning further attacks against individual scientists, according to its manifesto.
Two professors were injured while opening a package containing a home-made bomb at one of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) campuses in Mexico earlier this month (8 August).
According to local authorities, the attack came from the group called 'Individuals Tending Towards Savagery', which took responsibility through a blog post detailing bomb construction that matched the evidence found by the police.
The group has published a 5,400 word manifesto, which claims that nanotechnology research will cause "the Earth [to] become a grey goo in which intelligent nano-machines will rule".
"Many might say technology has improved medicine, and might label us as inhumane … but this is just a trap of the system," the manifesto says, denouncing nanotechnology as global domination propaganda.
Two professors were injured while opening a package containing a home-made bomb at one of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) campuses in Mexico earlier this month (8 August).
According to local authorities, the attack came from the group called 'Individuals Tending Towards Savagery', which took responsibility through a blog post detailing bomb construction that matched the evidence found by the police.
The group has published a 5,400 word manifesto, which claims that nanotechnology research will cause "the Earth [to] become a grey goo in which intelligent nano-machines will rule".
"Many might say technology has improved medicine, and might label us as inhumane … but this is just a trap of the system," the manifesto says, denouncing nanotechnology as global domination propaganda.
Link: Anti-nanotech group behind Mexican scientist bombings
ENOUGH!
It reminds me, of the bullies that tortured us when we expressed interests in the sciences; literature (from which real dreams spring), other-than sports as livelihoods, wanting to make contributions to humanity on concrete ways.
It reminds me of the epithets hurled towards us; ostracized by the "cool" group of teens because you're "a nerd." I think Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs fit well in this category, as well as any science teacher, secondary or college, that taught for the sheer joy of the subject matter.
Like Heliocentrism by Copernicus then Galileo, or high grades one turns in to a science teacher or professor, a vitriolic reaction rises when someone simply challenges another's worldview of comfortable mediocrity (akin to hogs in their own slop) that cannot be confused by facts...that may actually benefit their country!
This goes beyond personal bullying: scientists making their life's work bettering MEXICO should not feel threatened for doing research that will ultimately bring jobs and revenue to their nation.
Madness!
"I do not know with what kinds of weapons the Third World War will be fought, but the Fourth World War will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein
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