[meteorite-list] Ot scientific method

[Michael Fowler]

> The scientific method has ...... snip....   brought us lead in gasoline which poisioned and killed millions of people. Mercury from coal fired plants. Rubber tires that leave small particles of latex in the air on our highways which make roads slippery and never leave our lungs. 


I think it would be fairer to say that our wonderful capitalist system where the profit motive reigns supreme has brought us the things you describe.  It was government than banned lead from gasoline.  Science has long know that lead was bad for public health.

Mike Fowler
Chicago