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Natural Science is now in grave disrepute. It survives in its present from only because of a media- and academia-generated program of propaganda which needs the constant distractions of novelties, spurious discoveries, outright fraud, and smokescreens of personal invective, all of which are designed to keep the punters guessing, and ordinary people from asking the most fundamental of philosophical questions about cause and effect, reason and purpose, and loss and gain. … This is not science. This is unmitigated wickedness.
– Metamorphosis, p. 52 (a companion book to the film, Metamorphosis
Strong stuff. But spend a while on the “The Aliens are really OUT There!” desk and you’ll find it harder to disagree.