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Dissenting opinions
Almost all technology assessment has been harmful and is likely
to be harmful in the future.
Co-operation with the Government's energy conservation program,
especially programs minimizing the use of electricity or minimizing
peak use, is harmful to the country at the present time.
Some degree of nuclear proliferation may be necessary at present.
We can have all the energy we are likely to want - in particular,
more than we have ever used.
It is regrettably necessary at present to encourage
military spirit in the Germans and the Japanese.
The preponderance of evidence is that intellectual and other
abilities are not equally distributed among major races, minor national
and tribal groups, and among economic and occupational groups.
Many of the national and cultural traditions of various groups
are harmful to the happiness and economic advancement of their members.
It is possible that the old culture of the Jews was very bad, and their
subsequent advancement is partly due to the fact that many made a very
drastic break with it into a modern attitude during the nineteenth
century.