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- From: lancer@realsoon.WPI.EDU (Stephe Lewis Foskett)
- Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
- Subject: welcome to alt.org.pugwash
- Date: 23 Nov 92 12:28:54
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- About Pugwash:
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- Pugwash is an international organization founded by and dedicated to the
- ideals of Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell in relation to the creation
- of rational technology policy. Student Pugwash USA has chapters in many
- High Schools and Universities, and there are similar organizations for
- educational chapters in other countries. Senior Pugwash is a similar
- group serving the scientific community worldwide.
-
- At the 1992 Student Pugwash USA Chapter Organizing Workshop, it was
- decided, and thus voted, that a UseNet newsgroup should be created for
- discussion of Pugwash related topics. It was further decided that I
- should try to create this newsgroup.
-
- Pugwash believes that people will make proper decisions if they think about
- the social implications of their actions. To this end, Pugwash suggests
- open discussion about ethical concerns without excluding people for a supposed
- lack of knowledge on their part.
-
- About the alt.pugwash newsgroup:
-
- It is a forum for people to bring up and discuss a wide variety of
- Science, Society, and Technology issues. Some sample topics discussed
- at Pugwash meetings are: Biotechnology, Overpopulation, Environmental
- Pollution, and Biodiversity. Many other topics lend themselves to
- Pugwash discussion as well.
-
- Questions/comments about pugwash-related topics should be posted here.
- Questions/comments about the technicalities of this newesgroup should
- be emailed to pugwash@wpi.wpi.edu.
-
- enjoy!
- --
- - so spake lancer@wpi.wpi.edu - - so speaks Diamanda Galas: -
- - What sympathy in death discloses, we who fester here -
- - are very much alive, and watch unmanned compassion flee to -
- - safer zones... Let us praise the masters of slow death... -
-