i don't think that you can attach a tag of "good or bad" to science; science is knowledge(and methodology to acquire new knowledge) which is/are neutral.

rev wrote: "Is it possible to have a totally free, secular and democratic approach to all isms?...IMHO, in a free, secular and democratic society, no ism ought to be free to impose itself on people who choose to be free from it."

i think that the idea of democracy is incompatible with many isms; especially in western society: the doctrines of most isms demand the rejection of all other isms.

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