# Science is not a Panacea **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021 "2014-04-26T04:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/41 "2014-04-26T14:57:26Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Whether or not science is a panacea isn’t the question. The real question is – _what problem_ is the OP talking about? 😕 Panacea Bread soup is OK and so are the sandwiches. No idea what the problem would be. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/42 "2014-04-26T15:00:52Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > **MoreThanScience** , rants go in The BBQ Pit, not Great Debates. The Pit? It belongs _ **in a museum** _! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/43 "2014-04-26T15:02:48Z")
I think the Nazis were ignorant. What does that make me? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/44 "2014-04-26T15:38:34Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > ETA: _Indiana Jones_ is a work of fiction, not a documentary. It’s okay, so is the OP and the OP who P’d it. He said, skeptically. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/45 "2014-04-26T15:39:51Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I think the Nazis were ignorant. What does that make me? A scientist? ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/46 "2014-04-26T15:40:13Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I think the Nazis were ignorant. What does that make me? An ignorance Nazi? No! -wait! …a _Nazi_ Nazi. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/47 "2014-04-26T15:40:53Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m a scientist, and I have no desire to ban or burn any books. I’m a scientist and I did throw my copy of “Hannibal” in the recycle bin. But I considered that an act of charity towards other literate people who might otherwise pick it up and read it. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/48 "2014-04-26T15:47:03Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I’m a scientist and I did throw my copy of “Hannibal” in the recycle bin. What are you, some sort of anti-Carthegenian?! ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/49 "2014-04-26T15:51:27Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m a scientist, and I have no desire to ban or burn any books. [snip] I’m guessing you never read anything from the “Left Behind” series. It’s not that the ideology is bad. It’s just that it’s written by people who seem to have been middle school students at the time. I swear, most 8th graders could write better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/50 "2014-04-26T16:03:38Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I don’t know. If there _is_ a panacea, what other than science would it be? Alcohol. Deny it, and you’re a Nazi. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/51 "2014-04-26T16:04:32Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Panacea Bread soup is OK and so are the sandwiches. I thought panacea was that Italian bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/52 "2014-04-26T16:12:39Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I thought panacea was that Italian bacon. Everyone knows the panacea secretes insulin, glucagon, and digestive enzymes. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/53 "2014-04-26T16:29:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Panacea Bread soup is OK and so are the sandwiches. No idea what the problem would be. People make bread out of afterbirth? Gross. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/54 "2014-04-26T16:31:02Z")
Wait! Zen!? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/55 "2014-04-26T16:40:36Z")
Panacea is that big building in Honk Kong, isn’t it? [http://www.sino-industry.com.hk/images/property/pan-asia-centre-1.jpg](http://www.sino-industry.com.hk/images/property/pan-asia-centre-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/56 "2014-04-26T16:47:32Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Panacea Bread soup is OK and so are the sandwiches. No idea what the problem would be. But what happens when they run out of bread bowls? That’s worse than anything Hitler did. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/57 "2014-04-26T17:40:15Z")
> [@MoreThanScience](#): > > I believe there is far more to this Universe than what Science can explain. Remove “far” and insert “yet” between “can” and “explain” and I’ll agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/58 "2014-04-26T17:40:18Z")
Also, what if I believe in Astrology and Zen, but I’m skeptical about witchcraft and the occult? Is that, like, Italian Fascism instead of full-blown Nazism? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/59 "2014-04-26T17:52:11Z")
I like how calling the OP “ignorant” is, to him or her, as bad as murdering millions in an attempt to commit genocide. Wee bit sensitive to criticism, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021/60 "2014-04-26T18:04:05Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > Wait! Zen!? Ven ve find you beliefing in ze astrology, zen ve burn you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-is-not-a-panacea/687021.md?page=4)