"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.“


-John Charles Polanyi

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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

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