Word: mindlessness
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...heroic efforts of biotechnologist Ingo Potrykus and his colleagues in developing beta-carotene-enhanced rice will save the lives of millions [SCIENCE, July 31]. Protesters who demand that this brilliantly humane enterprise be stopped should have their motives questioned. Their protest is nothing but the mindless hand waving of Luddites. Do they want the poor who live in Asia and elsewhere to starve? People must not succumb to the thinly veiled racism of so-called environmental activists. HOWARD R. OLSON Walnut Creek, Calif...
...make a perfectly sane and emotionally stable artificial consciousness from scratch? Not bloody likely. We should stick with the mindless drones. TOMAS INGUANZO Kalamazoo, Mich...
...Then there was the time when Brown football Coach Phil Estes took an innocuous Crimson quote and made it bulletin-board material for his team. Amazingly, he did the same thing the next year. Doesn't that gag get old, or does he only recruit easily manipulated, mindless drones? Maybe Phil's so mind-numbingly uncreative that he has to piggyback on others. Well, no matter what happens on the football field, Brown sucks. Put that on your board, Phil...
...moratorium marches, rock concerts), Americans have come to lose their fear of people assembled in mobs. In fact, Baby Boomers (a demographic mob themselves) like manifestations of this kind, like to see all those lighted matches winking and flickering. But during most of civilized history, crowds have been considered mindless, dangerous animals, easily manipulated by demagogues. I remember driving through northern Alabama in the middle of the night with George Wallace Jr. ("Little George"), who told me, in tones of fear and awe, how he had, as a child, watched his father, Governor George Wallace, inflame a very nasty audience...
...ended and vague, often focusing on a specific subject matter that a student has not yet covered in class. For schools and teachers to cover all the required material on the MCAS, they must sacrifice any freedom they had in choosing their own curricula. Their only option is a mindless, cramming style of teaching...