A quote from a woman who don't know or don't care about the Relic nor V... A quote about Hellman, who "invented" and "tested" the Relic himself and been involved in the whole process of the Relic creation/developpement from the very beginning.
In theory, if a man of science come to a deterministic conclusion based on his experience and observations, good chance he's right. And probably not the "woman" who say what you want to hear to get your help
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I guess you're free to believe whoever you want, but in my case, I chosen my side
- On one side, a scientific who created the technology, follow the whole developpement of it and also examined V himself. A guy who have no real reason/interest to lie (even less reason to lie while a gun is pointed on him^^).
- On the other side, a woman who know nothing about this technology, know nothing about V's state and more importantly, desesperatly need V's help to retrieve Arasaka's control from Yorinobu's hands.
I'm not gonna comment on the "merger" idea as I don't have an opinion on that either way, but I just wanted to respond to this @LeKill3rFou because - to be fair - just because a scientist makes a claim, doesn't necessarily mean it's an immutable fact. Hellman's just giving his opinion (regarding something that's essentially uncharted territory, btw). He's still a flawed human being affected by his own ego, hubris, biases, circumstances, etc.
And it's worth noting that scientists/doctors/academics often disagree with each other - it's not unusual. In some cases, you get ones who become so wedded to their ideas, especially when it's the thing that's made their career, that they just won't budge. That's why it's important to have "checks and balances" e.g. "peer review", regulatory oversight, etc. Again, because they're only human at the end of the day.
To put it into perspective, Einstein won the Nobel prize for physics for his work on the "photoelectric effect", something that was crucial in the development of quantum mechanics. Yet Einstein hated quantum mechanics. He was like, nah, the world doesn't work that way, "God does not play dice". Yet here we are using computers chatting over the Internet (thank QM for that).
So there ya go, one of the grand daddies of QM rejected QM, yet he was wrong.
Anyway, that's a bit of a tangent from me, but just felt the need to point it out because using the argument, "they're a scientist, therefore they must be correct" isn't a particularly compelling one. Also, pretty sure Hanako already knew about the Relic already.