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March 5, 1990
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On the Misuse of Scientific Discoveries
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In October 1953, a celebrated Professor of Law in Athens, Mr. O.J.
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Despotopoulos, appealed to UNESCO in a manifesto demanding that
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scientific research should cease, or at least be kept secret.
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It ought, he suggested, to be in future entrusted to a council of
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scientists, elected by a world vote, and consequently having
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authority to keep silence.
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A letter from Mr. Despotopoulos in 1955 says :
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"Natural science is certainly one of the most meritorious
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conquests in human history. But the moment it liberates
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forces capable of destroying the whole human race it ceases
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from a moral standpoint to be what it used to be. It has
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become almost impossible to distinguish between pure science
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and its technological applications. One cannot therefore
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speak of science qua science as being a good thing in
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itself.
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Or rather, in some of its more important branches, it has
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now become a negative value in so far as it no longer
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conforms to ordinary moral standards and is free to exercise
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its dangerous activities in order to satisfy the lust for
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power of the politicians.
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This adoration of progress and freedom where scientific
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research is concerned is wholly pernicious. What we propose
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is this: the codification of the conquests of natural
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science up to now, and the creation of a Council of World
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Scientists with powers to prohibit absolutely or partially
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any progress it may achieve in the future.
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Such a measure, no doubt, would be tragically severe, even
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cruel, since the activity it seeks to curtail is one of the
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noblest human impulses, and it is impossible to
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underestimate the difficulties inherent in such a solution.
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But there is no other that could be so efficacious.
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The objections are easily foreseen: a return to the Middle
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Ages, to barbarism, etc.; but these do not really carry any
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weight. Out intention is not to retard intellectual
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advancement, but to protect it; not to impose restrictions
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for the benefit of any social class, but in the interests of
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humanity as a whole. There lies the problem. Anything else
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can only lead to divisions and time wasted in trying to
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tackle problems of lesser importance."
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These ideas have much in common with certain proposals put forwad
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at international conferences on disarmament.
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Other civilizations apparently have had similar ideas regarding
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the control and regulation of scientific activities specifically
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including the release of dangerous knowledge into the hands of
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those who would irresponsibly misuse the information.
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One such civilization was the Eastern Indians at the time of the
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great ruler, Emperor Asoka in 273 B.C.
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Asoka was the grandson of Chandragupta, the first ruler to unify
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India. Ambition goaded Asoka to complete the work of his
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grandfather by conquering the region of Kalinga, between what is
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now Calcutta and Madras.
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100,000 Kalingan lost their lives in defense of their country
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during the battle.
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Asoka was overcome with emotion on viewing the resulting massacre
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and forever after experienced a horror of war. Introspection on
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the results of his attempt to complete the unification of India
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led him to a profound realization.
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He came to understand that the only true conquest was to win men's
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hearts by observance of the laws of duty and piety, because the
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Sacred Majesty desired that all living creatures should enjoy
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security, peace and happiness and be free to live as they pleased.
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By his own virtuous example, Asoka spread this religion (Buddhism)
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throughout India, Malaya, Ceylon and Mongolia. Asoka respected
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all religious sects, preached vegetarianism, abolished alcohol and
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the slaughter of animals.
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The famous writer, H.G. Wells, in his OUTLINE OF WORLD HISTORY
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wrote :
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'Among the tens of thousands of names of monarchs accumulated
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in the files of history, the name of Asoka shines almost
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alone, like a star.'
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Emperor Asoka's repulsion of war caused him to seek a means to
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forbid men ever to put their intelligence to evil uses. During
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his reign natural science, past and present, was vowed to secrecy.
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Henceforward, and for the next 2,000 years, all researches,
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ranging from the structure of matter to the techniques employed in
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collective psychology, were to be hidden behind the mystical mask
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of a people commonly believed to be exclusively concerned with
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ecstasy and supernatural phenomena.
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Asoka founded the most powerful secret society on earth; that of
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the Nine Unknown Men.
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It is still thought that the great men responsible for the destiny
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of modern India, and scientists like Bose and Ram believe in the
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existence of the Nine, and even receive advice and messages from
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them.
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The story of the Nine Unknown Men was popularized for the first
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time in 1927 in a book by Talbot Mundy who for twenty-five years
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was a member of the British police force in India. His book is
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half fiction, half scientific inquiry.
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The Nine apparently employed a synthetic language, and each of
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them was in possession of a book that was constantly being
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rewritten and containing a detailed account of some branch of
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science.
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The first of these books is said to have been devoted to the
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technique of propaganda and psychological warfare. 'The most
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dangerous of all sciences,' wrote Mundy, 'is that of moulding mass
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opinion, because it would enable anyone to govern the whole
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world.'
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It must be remembered that Korjybiski's GENERAL SEMANTICS did not
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appear until 1937 and that it was not until the West had had the
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experience of the last World War that the techniques of the
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psychology of language, i.e. propaganda, could be formulated.
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The second book was on physiology. It explained, among other
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things, how it is possible to kill a man by touching him, death
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being caused by a reversal of the nerve-impulse. It is said that
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Judo is a result of 'leakage' from this book.
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The third volume was a study on microbiology, and dealt especially
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with protective colloids.
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The fourth was concerned with the transmutation of metals. There
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is a legend that in times of drought temples and religious relief
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organizations received large quantities of fine gold from a secret
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source.
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The fifth volume contains a study of all means of communication,
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terrestrial and extra-terrestrial.
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The sixth expounds the secrets of gravitation.
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The seventh contains the most exhaustive cosmogony known to
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humanity.
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The eighth deals with light.
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The ninth volume, on sociology, gives the rules for the evolution
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of societies, and the means of foretelling their decline.
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Avoiding all forms of religious, social or political agitations,
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deliberately and perfectly concealed from the public eye, the Nine
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were the incarnation of the ideal man of science, serenely aloof,
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but conscious of his moral obligations.
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Having the power to mould the destiny of the human race, but
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refraining from its exercise(?), this secret society is the finest
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tribute imaginable to freedom of the most exalted kind.
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Looking down from the watch-tower of their hidden glory, the Nine
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Unknown Men watched civilizations being born, destroyed and re-
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born again, tolerant rather than indifferent, and ready to come to
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the rescue - but always observing that rule of silence that is the
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mark of human greatness.
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Myth or reality? A magnificent myth, in any case, and one that
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has issued from the depths of time - a harbinger, maybe, of the
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future?
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excerpted from Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels & Bergier
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