I’m often given to wondering what would happen if an
archaeologist discovered some well preserved documents from the time of
Roman-occupied Judea which completely debunked
the whole of Christian mythology.
Would he or she, I wonder, be honest enough to make the new knowledge public, or would the alternative prove too tempting: sneak furtively off the Vatican and say ‘I’ve found these documents which will bring your whole organisation crashing down on your heads. Make me a multi-millionaire and you can have them to do with as you will.’
All very speculative, I know, but I still can’t help
wondering.
And I suppose the same could be said of a scientist who discovered a cure for cancer, and has then to decide whether to shout it from the rooftops or give it up for burial by the medical insurance industry.
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