Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance

I agree about the mixture of cooperation and competition, but it is clear that cooperation comes first and is even necessary to bring about the conditions for competition. To use a simple metaphor : People see the competing athletes but are blind to the cooperation required for the setting of the competiton, i.e. the buildings, teams, schedules, infrastructure, etc. This myopic view is what makes it ideological. Solid science builds on all data, not a biased selection thereof.