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The Noble Savage by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute Eisenhower warned us: “Beware the military-industrial complex.” Those words are widely remembered. Less so the companion warning: “Holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.” That second warning may prove the more prophetic. The convergence of those two forces – the industrial machi...