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Re:Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M... by jjoonathan on Sunday September 22, 2019 @07:20PM (#21044625)
That people care far more about money than about where it comes from. That's usually a pretty safe bet.

I'd like to hope that recent events will change things, but I tend to suspect this is more like one of those finance rulings where someone gets fined $1 for every $1000 they earned in an evil way, and that the underlying risk/reward profile hasn't fundamentally shifted. Still, every push in the right direction helps!

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Re:Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M... by sieabahlpark on Sunday September 22, 2019 @07:46PM (#21044754)
Not trying to excuse Epstein but what body would determine what is Evil? Sounds very authoritarian.
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Re:Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M... by mannykannot on Sunday September 22, 2019 @08:29PM (#21044995)
I think the point is that MIT, on its own initiative, might have been more careful about to whom it sold respectability. Saying 'no' to a donation is not very authoritarian.
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