Usual Locations: KeMPR

Couple of months ago I had this urge to track down a musician I used to listen to. His name is Richard Kemp. I got to know him a few years back when I lived in Ulverston, saw him play in several open mic nights and generally got to know the guy. Then things turned a little sour, and I moved to Lancaster. And contact was lost. I sort of tried to keep at least one eye on what he was doing musically, but then it just seemed to go quiet one day. But as I mentioned, I decided to go on a little Google/Facebook hunt and see if I could track him down again. And lo and behold I find him, under a new name. KeMPR.

Now for a little background (Pieced together from some fragments of my memory). Richard Kemp (mostly known as Kempy, when I knew him that might have changed since) used to be in a band called 12ft Machete, that apparently created quite a stir on the Furness peninsula. From what I've been told mostly through Richard's phenomenal stage presence. Sadly I moved to late into that area to actually ever get to see them play.  The only track I could track down by them is a song called 'Albino Twist' but only as a remix by master local Furness producer Howie Venton. Which to be fair is a cracking remix and makes me really want to hear the original. But on this track you can hear what a great rock singer he is and why 12ft Machete managed to create a name for themselves.



 When 12ft Machete called it quits out of those ruins came essentially two(Now three, possibly four) different projects. One that I became quite fond of was/is called Runt Hörnet, who play a delightful punk rock music with some aid of home made instruments like their monobass (Usually played by Howie Venton) that is played with wrench instead of a plectrum


for cryin out loud from runt hornet on Myspace.

and Lobe which had Richard Kemp in it and they played more of acoustic ballady stuff with some folky over tones. 

Stars Above Headlights from Lobe on Myspace.

Since then Lobe has disbanded for whatever reason. (With one half now doing instrumental acoustic stuff under the name 'dogmusiC'.) I had heard that they had been active around the open mic arenas around the Furness peninsula. The last song was from 2007. And then on-line activity seemed to cease from them. The Grapevine had been telling me that there had been a few personal issues that needed to be resolved and suchlike. Which just saddened me because Kempi (Kempy, Richard, whatever!) always struck me as someone who really could go all the way with his music. Thankfully, due to some Facebook browsing and Googleing, I managed to find him. Only to find out that he had relocated to Halifax and thankfully was still making music!

Few years back I used to own a album of Richard's (Kempi's, whatever!) in which he worked with Howie Venton, and I loved it. But due to many many computer formatting, rebooting and rescheduling those music files were lost. Amongst those songs was an orchestral version of one of his most played songs



Though my personal favourite song from that album was a cold industrial song called 'February'. This song always somehow made me feel a little homesick.



Currently he seems to be making a name for himself both as a musician and as an artist. And has recently published a new album called 'Some Days are Harder Than Most'.

Since renewing my interesting in his music what I have found both excellent and surprising is the fact that he's pretty much continued with the folk/acoustic stuff from Lobe. And that's not a complaint by any means. Kempi has a very gentle singing voice which also makes you feel so much better about yourself. Most of the songs do seem to centre around not losing hope knowing that there are friends around. Even during the most dejected and downtrodden song 'Reject-0' has that element to it.

Possibly the best example of this Hope Prevails/Friends song type is "We'll be around".



In amongst those acoustic songs we get surprises like 'Supersizer' a delightful raunchy rock n' roll song.



I do hope he just keeps on cranking the songs out. Hopefully go on a bit of a tour. There is no doubt about it, he's got the song writing skills and he's got a bloody good voice, both for ballads and rock. And he's got the personality.

Student Nurse Perspective: Stroke Care

Seeing as my first job as a qualified nurse is going to be on a stroke unit. I thought for my own sake that I write a little about strokes. With that I thought I'd tie in with a little bit of information about thrombolysis. Mostly I am writing this as a refresher for myself and at the moment this looks like to be my last Student Nurse Perspective article. Due to be renamed Icelandic Metal Nurse. But I do hope that it will be useful for others as well, I will try my best to write it in such a way that everyone can read it and understand it (well, hopefully).

Haemorrhagic Stroke

Stroke (Apparently called Brain Attack in the US) is the common name for Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA). Every year around 100,000 strokes occur in the UK. It mostly occurs in people who are over 65. But it can affect everyone. It is a very debilitating condition and depending on which area of the brain it happens the symptoms vary. Mostly the effects are irreversible. Symptoms vary between what part of the brain is affected, and the larger the stroke the more areas of cognitive ability it will affect. Stroke accounts for over 46,000 deaths per year making it the third largest cause of deaths in the UK and it is the most common cause of adult disability.  There are big financial implications for society as a whole, total costs to the NHS is over £4.4 billion per year and to society due to lost income and informal care it is £9 billion.

Survival rates from a stroke is currently 20-30% after one month and 30-40% after one year, but those numbers do not mean a lot to the individual. Generally in terms of better prognosis is based on severity of the stroke, age of the patient, what type of stroke, ethnicity and co-morbidities. Physical recovery is based on how much function the patient has in terms of activities of daily living and it usually reaches it's peak six months post stroke.  Whilst we have come a long way in treating acute strokes and hospital rehabilitation for stroke patients, we have not progressed very well in terms of long term management and community based treatment for stroke patients who suffer from some of the more long term affects of strokes like psychological and social problems.

Ischaemic Stroke

Strokes fall into two categories, ischaemic strokes and haemorrhagic strokes. Ischaemic strokes accounts for 85-90% of all strokes. Ischaemic stroke occurs when there is a blood clot occluding any blood flow to a portion of the brain. Haemorrhagic stroke is when an artery in the brain has burst and blood leaks into the brain tissue. Haemorrhagic stroke can also be further divided into Intracerebral haemorrhage (bleeding in the brain tissue) and subarachnoid haemorrhage (bleeding on the surface of the brain). There are also some conditions that are sometimes known as stroke mimics, for example hypoglycaemia, epileptic seizures, severe migraine attack, encephalopathy and Transient Ischaemic Attacks. There are certain lifestyle factors that increase your risk of having a stroke such as smoking, alcohol consumption, poor diet, lack of exercise, obesity and drug use. There are also certain medical conditions that will raise that risk such as  high cholesterol, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, diabetes and atrial fibrillation.

• There are of course plenty of actions you can take to reduce your risk of getting a stroke. If you are a smoker then there is nothing better you could do than to quit smoking. I mean seriously. Just stop. Now. That stuff is bad for you.
• Reduce your alcohol consumption. Those cans/wine glasses add up, especially when you are pairing gluten free German beer with French wine as smorgaswine.
• Lay of those drugs. Or at least reduce your usage drastically. Please.
• Pick up regular exercise. It doesn't have to be anything major. Just get of that sofa and go for a nice brisk 30-45 minute walk every day. Get a dog or failing that get a ferret.
• Increase your intake of fruit and vegetables. The importance of a good diet cannot be underestimated. Sure go for the occasional fast food, but don't forget to include some salad with it.
• Lose some weight. No I am not saying that you have to look like a sculptured Greek god/dess. I am saying that that apron you have around your waist needs to go.
  
• If you're diabetic make sure that you keep your blood sugar ticking between 4-10 mmol/l. Fluctuating blood sugar can be a little disastrous. 

F.A.S.T.

Thankfully due to the excellent FAST campaign most people know what signs to look out for if someone is having a stroke. But I'll go over it briefly again just to recap. When stroke begins the symptoms are pretty quick to show, first thing to notice will be if the face is drooping to one side (can they smile), if they can raise both arms and keep them raised for say 10 seconds or so and if their speech is slurred. Time is of essence here so if you suspect that a loved one is having a stroke phone the emergency services as soon as possible (999, 112 or 911, depending on your location). While there are lots more signs and symptoms those are the ones you should look out for. Symptoms also vary depending on where the damage is happening in the brain, if the symptoms are visible on the right side of the body then the left side of the brain is affected and vice versa.

Carotid Artery

If you've been found to be in a particular risk group then your doctor might decide to put you on some medications in order to reduce that risk. This is mostly medication based using drugs like statins, these are used to control and lower your cholesterol. Anti-platelet, such as aspirin or clopidogrel, are also per standard. These work by inhibiting platelets forming clots. Quite possibly the most important one, or possibly the most well known, you will also be prescribed a tablet from the anti-coagulation group, most likely Warfarin. Like the anti-platelets these work by reducing clot forming usually by inhibiting vitamin k production. As far as side effects are concerned there is the risk of bleeding. If you were diagnosed with high blood pressure you would also be put on either beta blockers or ACE inhibitors.  All of these drugs would also be used as a secondary prevention. If you had suffered from Transient Ischaemic Attacks your doctor might suggest that you have what is called Carotid Endarterectomy, this procedure is used to remove plaque from the carotid arteries. If this procedure is done in a timely manner post TIA's then lives can be saved and strokes averted. Not only that it is also sometimes a suggested operation to prevent another stroke from occurring and again time is of the essence. The sooner this operation is done the better outcome there is for the patient.

Recombinant Tissue
Plasminogen Activator

If ischaemic stroke is caught soon enough and time of onset is known then this type of stroke can be partially reversed or at least contained using a medical treatment called Thrombolysis. The alternative name for it is Alteplase and this is made from recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. It is biotechnology at its finest. This treatment is a bit of a controversial one, mainly due to the perceived ineffectiveness, the risk and the price.  About 1 in 7 actually benefits from it and there is the danger that it might turn an ischaemic stroke into a haemorrhagic one. In order to qualify for the procedure you have to have a CT/MRI scan to confirm what kind of stroke you have had. The time of onset has to be known and has to be within 4 hours, though the treatment is said to work better if it is within 3 hours. And the patient has to be weighed. If it has gone over 4 and half hours then you are in danger of damaging the brain even further. When it is effective then it is very effective, a study found that after three months from treatment around 30% of patients were back to normal or at least near normal neurologically and a further 30% had mild to moderate neurological deficit. Up to 50% had become independent in activities of daily living and 15% were moderately independent. But on the other side of things it also found that it up to 9% of patients who had received this treatment had died due to intracranial haemorrhage.

So in conclusion. Regarding strokes time, is of the essence so if you suspect that a loved one (or a stranger for that matter) is having a stroke get your phone out. Don't waste your time taking pictures, and phone for the emergency services. But it isn't just important to get them into the hospital for treatment it is also important to make sure that they end up in a specialist stroke unit as their chances of recovery are much better on there than on a general medical ward. The multi-disciplinary team on there should be made up from (besides nurses) Occupational Therapists, physiotherapists, Clinical Stroke Specialist Nurse, medical consultant and a registrar. Ideally after the hospital stay there should be an outreach team to assist with activities of daily living and further rehabilitation.

Statement.

Just in case I hadn't made it clear and to shed some light on my thinking process. Education is a wonderful thing. Not really that many years ago I used to be a fairly big believer in herbal medicine, I had actually seriously considered studying herbal medicine, that organic food was better, and a fence-sitter regarding vaccines.

Obviously as most of you will have noticed my stance on those things have changed. And changed for the better. The things that changed it were a culmination of a lot or things, firstly my duaghyer when she was very very young developed bronchioloitis but for a while me and my partner were convinced that she had whopping cough(truthfully I still think that might have been the case, but the GP hadn't seen a case of whopping cough for 10 years. Let that sink in a little) and as I started my course I started meeting more Polio survivors, all 70+ years of age.

At its finest modern medicine is based on herbal medicine, the difference is that the volatile compounds have been isolated, purified and made more potent. The rest of herbal medicine just tastes nice on chicken.

As for opposing GM technology, well that has got to be the most self centred, first world problem that I can think of. To oppose technology that creates drought resistant and pest resistant seeds that will create more food, with more nutrients, not just for the booming population of the first world (be grateful that you can waste money on organic) but also the starving population of the third world is, as stated before, self centred and selfish. Oh and if you oppose GM technology then you are wishing death on insulin dependent diabetics. And Haemophiliacs.

So here's the rub. In the next six months I will (grading pending of course) qualify as a nurse. And I will be using evidence based practice. And if some idiot then tries to convince a patient of mine that chemo is useless, that vaccines cause more problems then they solve, if they just generally advocate the use of untested, unproven and dangerous treatments instead of proven, effective safe treatments, they will feel my shoe firmly lodged into their posterior.

If you want to use these methods fine. I can live with that, but don't you fucking dare get in the way of me doing the best for my patients. And not just for my patients but the community as a whole.

This might all come across as close minded, but it is anything but. I have been willing to look at the evidence and the evidence changed my mind. Being open minded is what evidence based science is all about.

Mother Country Music Loving, Part four.

This will be my fourth(duh!) part of writing about bands from Iceland. If you'd like to catch up here is Number One, Number Two and Number Three.

Ask The Slave, 2010

Ask the Slave, is an Avant-Garde metal band. I first heard of them and heard them when I attended Eistnaflug in 2008. The little I do remember from my alcohol induced haze was that I really enjoyed their music. Someone had remarked that they were the Icelandic version of Faith No More, I personally after listening to them would say that they are more akin to Mr. Bungle. There are a lot of genre lumped together into one song, lots of rhythms shifts and melody changes, but most of those don't sound out of place or forced. Valurs vocal does sound like he went to the Mike Patton school of Vocal Tormenting. He's easily the most versatile singer to come from Iceland. But everything he does regarding the singing is for the betterment of the song. Which is the wonderful thing about this band, while Valur could/would/should be the stand-out member, but he isn't. They all function like a well oiled machine, if one of the other instruments would be taken of the songs it would fall to pieces. So far there are two albums, "Kiss Your Chora" and  "The Order of Things" out and one B-Side collection called "The King of Prunes", with a new LP, called "Good People, Bad Things" which is meant to be out next year. And yes I am looking forward to it. They also make some excellent music video's for example the song "Sleep Now" which sounds like a lovely ballad up until you watch the video and realise how creepy it actually is. It is one of those instances where the video makes a good song great.
Both their albums while being all over the place manage to suck you in and keep your interest throughout. And I personally am looking forward to the day when they open up for Mr. Bungle and Mike Patton walks on the stage then drops the mike stating he can't keep up.

Dr. Spock

Dr Spock, is a very unusual rock. Again we are looking at the Avant-Garde section of things. Most of all it is plain and simple good fun rock and roll or in their own words "Heavy Metal Cabaret with a dash of Surf-Porn Cartoon Funky Polka". By all accounts their concerts are once in a lifetime experience. Which doesn't really surprise me, in their ranks they've got the gruff voice from HAM, who continues barking orders and sounding like he's cursing the entire world. In the most jovial manner of course. It is very chaotic music that is on display, but at the same time even with my rather low-fi laptop speakers I feel like dancing like a mad cow and thrash my living room, the song "Sons of Ecuador" being the perfect example of this manic musical genius that is going on. But as far as I can see nothing new has appeared since 2008, which is a crying shame. But even with a short life they've left a long lasting legacy and much like HAM their reputation seems to be growing with their absence. And if only they had actually got into Eurovision with their song. It would have been perfect. But Ottar Proppee finally did manage to perform on the big stage in 2014.

Börn

Börn, now there is a certain amount of nepotism going on here in the sense that I probably wouldn't have given this band a chance if it didn't include family members. But to be clear I don't write blogs  about a band that I don't like. It just so happens that this band includes my youngest sister on vocals and her boyfriend on the drums. They have been playing together in various forms of punk bands. The earliest incarnation that I know of was Tentacles of Doom, which then got changed into Norn, but they had to reconsider their name choices when it turned out that there is a black metal band in Iceland using the same name. So here we've ended up with Börn. And unfortunately I giggle probably way more then I should when I type in the url of their BandCamp site. On the whole I'm not a big fan of the punk scene. Never have been though of course like other genre's there are always bands that manage to captivate my attention. Börn being one of them. What this album reminds me mostly of are the first two albums by Killing Joke. There is this almost joyous tribalism running throughout this smog of despair. It all sounds exceptionally simple, all the instruments seem to be geared towards being rhythmic and, well, dancable. Alexandra barks out her lyrics with pure unbristled ferocious commanding singing, all about self-reliance, equality and independence. On this album she sounds like she could and should command armies. It would be great to see them and It Hurts To Be Dead play at the same gig.

Top 15 songs over the last 12 months

These are the songs that have had the most listen according to my Last.Fm profile. There is a marked difference from last time with a huge portion spent on The Dear Hunter.

Top 15 played Artists from 2013-2014

Well it's been just over a year since I first published a similar list. This is done using my Last.FM profile. The list has changed quite a bit, but that is probably because I have started using Last.FM more in order to keep track on what I have been listening to. Well enjoy.

1. The Dear Hunter
2. SepticFlesh
3. Joe Hisaishi
4. Samael
5. Rammstein
6. HAM
7. Antonio Vivaldi
8. Queensryche
9. Marillion
10. Bruce Dickinson
11. Long Distance Calling
12. Iron Maiden
13. Fjoergyn
14. David Bowie
15. Devin Townsend

A sheep no more

There got your attention. It always strikes me as odd when people who say "Do your Research!", "Sheep!" and "Don't believe their propaganda!" always seem to be the least informed. They like to shout slogans, look at memes and then no more. This is especially true for people who like to say that they are for the environment, yet they also want to refuse all environmental help and reject all science for something like "It worked well for people in the past.". 

Case in point at the moment is all the hooha about Ecover using GM product in their products. Ecover started using oil from genetically altered algae instead of palm oil. For obvious reasons, as palm oil industry has been known to devastate forests and wildlife habitats in South America, Africa and Asia. So Ecover did the right thing by changing their product in order to preserve the environment the best, which has always been their philosophy. Even if it does mean that they make inferior products as well. But people are objecting against it because of the use of GM. For heaven's sake, which do you want? Unadulterated, okay-ish cleaner (That's still superior to other "natural" cleaning products) that is bad for the environment, saves orangutans and rain forests... Or do you want a the opposite? Of course you are welcome to argue against it, but quite frankly I am pretty sure that those developers at Ecover know more about their product and how to make it then you.

Then there's cheese. People who are against GM forget that little titbit. The rennet that is used to make cheese... That rennet, that is NOT originally from a calves stomach. Is genetically modified. Now do you want a guilt free block of cheese, or do you want to kill some more calves for your Welsh Rarebit?

A cousin of mine , wanted me to watch a video called World According to Monsanto, which in itself added nothing new, only reaffirmed lies there was a lot of FUD about in that video. That was his evidence. Nothing else, for someone who has three university degrees that is quite astounding. YouTube is great, but using Youtube does not constitute as evidence. Same with that video regarding the bees. When people hear the name Monsanto, most of them don't even know what that company does. And seem to think it's big company. It's the only company. No it isn't. That they are working towards controlling the food sector everywhere in the world, a plan that has not worked very well for them so far. Want a comparison? Well, Monsanto earned about $15 billion in 2013, but Whole Earth (For Brits think Suma) earned about $13 billion.  It is an agricultural company that does a lot of research into Genetic Modification. They sell seeds of their own design. They also sell organic seeds, as well. Monsanto are a lot of things, but most of the stories that is written about them are lies or mis-interpretations. 

I got another friend who likes to regurgitate that Suzuki meme, now there's a man who's made a lot of money from spreading FUD. He charges $30,000 for speaking at universities and hasn't done any significant research for the best part of 20 years. He is not what you can actually call reliable, in fact his story seems to be more akin of Linus Pauling. Besides for a man who says he's a scientist, he has a very unfortunate tendency to make absolute statements that he can't then follow up. The man is a clown. His knowledge of GMO's is about 20 years behind and he has not done any relevant research in any field relating to genetics or biology for well over 15 years. When he does meet other scientists who know what they are talking about he fails completely.

Talking about intellectual dishonesty, Vandana Shiva has been a vocal opponent against GMO. And she also uses the title Dr. You would have thought that she has some kind of doctorate in biology, environmental studies or the like. No, it's in philosophy. She lies about her qualifications and people believe those lies. And she charges $40,000. Can you imagine how much income her and David would earn if they tried to tell the truth? Probably not a lot.

GMO can also mean a lot of different things. But these people are against all of them. For example. Golden Rice, is rice with vitamin A added. This is meant to help nations where sources of Vitamin A are scarce. Yet Greenpeace go out of their way to destroy those crops, leaving people in the third world to go blind due to lack of that vitamin. How can you complain that there hasn't been enough testing WHEN YOU DESTROY THE CROPS THAT ARE MEANT FOR TESTING?

Oh, and that lie about 47,500 Indian farmers committed suicide because of GM Cotton? Yeah, that's a lie. Complete and utter lie, spread by liars and charlatans like Vandana Shiva and David Suzuki.

That lie about GM eggplants, where farmers in Bangladesh were supposedly spraying more pesticides on their plants and that their plants weren't thriving. Yeah, that's a lie.

IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY!

And that lie that Organic is better for you, with more nutrients, better taste and less pesticide use. That's a HUGE lie spread by Health Food Shops in order to line their pockets. The taste is the same, nutrients are the same AND they use more pesticides then conventional farming because the pesticide that the Organic industry rely on are no where near as reliable or effective. And before people start pointing out to me the latest and "greatest" study that was funded by an organic society. It measured more anti-oxidants and those aren't as great as some people like to imagine they are.

"Don't believe their propaganda!" Oh so you want me to believe yours instead? On what basis? You seem to be lying through your teeth as well, whether you are aware of it or not. You might not be aware because you're just repeating someone else's lies that sound good and fit within your social network so you repeat it without fact checking it. 

All of this can be said of vaccines as well. I still get people on my Facebook list posting that fucking stupid article stating "Courts quietly confirm MMR causes Autism." No they did not. This is from some small Italian court that the Italian Department of Health didn't even bother to show up for because they didn't think that the judge would actually rule against them and where the Prosecutor used the Wakefield "study" as evidence AND this is from the same country that jailed seismologists for manslaughter for not predicting an earthquake. This is of course ignoring the fact that Wakefield only used 12 kids, lied about his data, lied about his funding, performed procedures that the Ethics committee never approved off and has since been making tidy profit of people who still believe his lies. This also ignores every single piece of research that has been done since completely and utterly disproving any link. Including the most recent one that including 1.2 million subjects. Now compare that to Wakefields lies of 12 children. 

As for when people yell "THEY ARE PUMPING POISON INTO THE VEINS OF BABBIES!!!". No they are not. A vaccine that is in a syringe is 0.5 ml. Think of a teaspoon, that can hold 5 ml. How can anyone pump NOUGHT POINT FIVE MILLILITRES into anyone is beyond the realm of possibility. And it is a intramuscular injection. Not a intravenous injection. Ever come across the concept of LD50? No? Of course not, because you are a keyboard warrior who thinks that you know better then immunologists, biologists, toxicologists, doctors virologists around the world because you read something written by The Refusers. LD50 is essentially what Paracelsus said in the 1600

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

LD50 is:

"a standard measurement of acute toxicity that is stated in milligrams (mg) of pesticide per kilogram (kg) of body weight. An LD50 represents the individual dose required to kill 50 percent of a population of test animals (e.g., rats, fish, mice, cockroaches)."

So get it now? Poison is the dose. Toxicity is the dose. Anything that fits in a 0.5 ml syringe is NOT POISON.

Reading Natural News is not research. Reading Collective Evolution is not research. Food babe, not research. Vaccination Information Network has no information on Vaccines. Family Health Freedom Network is not research.

Same goes for Nuclear Power. There has been a lot of talk regarding how Germany are closing their nuclear power plants and opening more Windmills and Solar Power plants, both fine and dandy, nothing against those. But neglecting to mention that they are also opening more Coal Power Plants. Which pollute more then any other kind of power station. Nuclear Power plants are superior, they are more environmentally friendly. That smoke you see from the scary scary looking chimneys, not smoke. But steam. For those people who are against fracking. You know why they are doing so much fracking at the moment? It's because some of you  are also against Nuclear power so the energy companies and governments are forced to look for energy elsewhere. So am I saying that Nuclear Power is the only answer? Well, no of course not but we shou. Solar panels and Wind Turbines are excellent, but they are not without their very very expensive costs and also do have adverse affects in the environment. What you have to remember is that solar panels aren't made from thin air. Producing those panels do have affect the environment. After about 20 years they have to be replaced.  Same with wind turbines, they can and do impact on the environment especially birds and bats and again they can only last 20 years, 25 tops. Whereas a nuclear power station can last up to 50 years, even as long as 70 years before the reactor needs to be replaced. All of these options are expensive to set up, but without a doubt they will pay in the long term. But in terms of long term effects, nuclear wins hands down.

Do your Research

So in the words of other people. Do your research and stop talking shit. If you actually care about the environment, if you actually care about other human beings besides yourself, if you actually care about what happens in less fortunate countries then the UK or the US (Or Iceland), then do your research and do it properly. But remember that this is why we have experts, because any individual can't know everything. Just because you've read research on open heart surgery for thoracic aortic aneurysm doesn't mean that you are qualified to do it.

Just remember though, just because you don't understand the science or the technology does not automatically make it evil. Just because a company invests millions of dollars(pounds, yen, whatever) does not mean that it is purely against humankind. What kind of a business strategy is it to knowingly kill your customers. And after spending millions of pounds(dollars, rubees, whatever) and years into researching and developing technology THAT CAN HELP HUMANKIND why should they not be financially compensated?

Just because you don't understand the science, does not mean that the science is flawed.