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[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Manhattan Project, being a project with no end game but genocide, really shouldn't fucking be considered science; not unless you're gonna crack out and try and tell me that indiscriminate, horrific mass murder deserves to be acknowledged in the same breath as mathematics and medicine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But science doesn't care about morality. Maybe you're thinking about religion?

It's fair to say that the Manhattan Project wasn't a "science first" project, but to deny that science was happening is...misguided, let's say.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 5 months ago

"First do no harm" is an axiom of medicine that more of you STEMlords should probably internalize, so maybe stow the condescension. I categorically refuse to accept a tool of mass genocide being counted next to that which would save lives and objectively measure our reality.