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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Chronic War-Preparers
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 09:06:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 09:06:26 1984
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Certainly, expert testimony is valuable.  However, Milo may set
dangerous precedent by allowing ONLY observations from "experts" as
admissable evidence.  Under such circumstances, public policy would be
determined by only a small group which may have interests differing
from that of the public at large.  This would be analagous to, say,
allowing doctors to regulate themselves.  Under such circumstances,
doctors could restrict the number of openings in medical schools, thus
creating a shortage of trained physicians and thus maintaining high
salary levels for themselves.  They could "discipline" themselves,
thus removing their actions from public scrutiny.  They could thwart
any reform which might threaten their control of the medical market.
I'm damn glad doctors can't do those things, and especially glad that
even if there were an "Amercian Medical Association", that nuclear
scientists are far superior morally and would not ever seek similar
refuge from outside scrutiny.

					David Rubin