A point

"The only people attacking science labs are animal rights freaks. "

True.  However, we are well inside the era of scientific medicine.  Which would mean that doctor's offices are also labs of science, and that abortion clinic bombings are attacks against science labs.

Yes, this potentially opens a lot of room for interpretations, and arguments. If a science lab is only a place where experimentation happens, then some doctors' offices aren't labs; but anywhere that contributed patient data to a study is.  Also, drug trials are experiments, which reinforces the argument of doctor office as science lab.  The real question is, it seems to me, 'What is a science lab?'

I'd say the answer is:

A science lab is where the primary application of resources is for scientific endeavors, in other words application of accepted scientific principles and/or experimentation. 

This definition would preclude most classrooms and include nuclear power plants, as well as doctor's offices.  Hence, invalidating a minor point.  Though, the implications of that minor point are serious.

Sorry to quibble, but religious people have attacked science labs.  Does that mean all religions, and religious people, oppose/attack all science (and it's institutions)? No, and if it seems I may be implying that, I apologize. 

Simply stating the ad hominem of authoritarianism isn't actually addressing anything- no matter its truth or fallacy.

 

 

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