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I am his official biographer. An unforseen consequence Although the Doctor is seen by most as an incredible and positive influence on the world today, there remains a small portion of society that are violently opposed to what is becoming known as 'Doctorism' - a term given to the enormous admiration for the Doctor shown by 99.7% of the world's population today. The once diffused spread of protestors formed into a legally recognised worldwide pressure group just last week. Their success in reducing the Doctor's popularity and doctrine has been nil, although there are concerns that they may become more powerful with time. The following is a statement recently published by Prof. Stuart Enderson on behalf of the group, who call themselves 'COWS', or 'Carry On With Science'. "We cannot simply stand idle as this man persuades us to go against our natural urge to explore and discover. It is alarming that in the last decade, advances in nearly every science have faded away; breakthroughs are increasingly rare in any field of human scientific endevour, barring psychology and sociology - which have naturally soared, although this is entirely thanks to Doctor Beard's work and few others. What the world sees as a positive trend towards better understanding of our own wants and needs is misguided. A 'utopia' where the population is not vain - thanks to being largely disfigured - as well as fundementally happy thanks to exceptional self-pyschoanalysis, is of course a very positive step. However, this cannot possibly last. The reason is not the collapse of capitalist economy, which seems likely over the next fifty years, thanks to issues not to be raised here. No - the issue is the decreasing number of scientists. People just don't feel the need to learn any more. They feel that they have achieved happiness and thus dicovery is no longer necessary - and those scientists that do exist spend most of their time studying psychological sciences in the shadow of Doctor Beard, gaining no comparative progress. The halting of technological advance is not only tragic, but also dangerous. With less people learning professions such as medicine, even those advances we have made will be forgotten. A stark warning must be presented to the world. Balance your obsession, or you will fail to educate an entire generation. Do that, and we lose hundreds of years of technological advance." The statment, whilst well meant, is flawed. It fails to acknowledge that 'Doctorists' tend not to care about this message. They no longer feel the need to have technology, or mathmatics, or biology, or pencils. They want psychology.
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