:/ I feel like we've been making the same points at each other for a while, now, mdk. You are saying "science isn't ideal!" and I'm saying "there is no monolith of science! They're just fallible people!" Yeah, I believe we are in agreement. There are problems inherent in the system, based on simple economics and human nature. I simply choose to believe that such things are temporary, and we are moving towards a less flawed system...

EDIT: I should mention, though, that these economic problems are quite similar to the political problems we discussed earlier, and have no bearing on whether the [i]act[/i] of experimenting to draw conclusions on things is bad... It's still not.