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Good oratory but why start at gun? What about swords, arrows and spears?

Science by itself is neutral. The proportion of evil scientists to all scientists is about the same as evil humans to all humans.

The quote seems to be in regards to commercially funded Scientists, and the Scientific community, not the abstract concept of science itself.

Any science could be turned to evil purpose, as well. Just like open source code that gets used to create malware.

Or look at sqlite. It was created to be used by missile systems.

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