Posted on 10/27/2014 9:19:25 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Around a year ago, this column ran a piece entitled “Whatever Happened To Science?” As Baby Boomers will recall, during our early youth, our little heads were crammed full of the promise of Science: Abundant cheap electrical power; the discovery of the structure of DNA would (somehow) lead to curing every disease, and the polio vaccine seemed to demonstrate this; our soaring postwar economy could easily fund ever more dramatic breakthroughs.
But then, as the 1960s dawned, reality set in. An extraordinary number of people were dying of heart disease, and good old Watson & Crick (or Salk & Sabin) couldn’t help much with that. Besides, Science offered no cure for the social ills such as grinding poverty and institutionalized racism, now being splashed across the TV screen. Of course, Science did bring us frightful weapon systems, nuclear waste, and napalm.
Meanwhile, greed in academia–hardly a new phenomenon–would rise to fever pitch in the wake of LBJ’s Great Society lavish spending on just about everything, including federal research dollars. With a so-called research university ensconced in many Congressional districts, no self-respecting member could let his local institution be deprived of research grants. Thus, as detailed in Senator Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2014, we uncover such gems as…
$387,000 going to Ohio State University to evaluate the benefits of massage therapy, via a mechanical device used on rabbits–as opposed to human patients.
$856,000 going to University of California Santa Cruz to examine high-energy activities of mountain lions. A principal effort was teaching the big cats how to run on a treadmill.
$331,000 going to Ohio State University and University of North Carolina Wilmington to study...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
If science could find a cure for liberal ignorance everything else would fall into place.
Easy.
Purge the liberals.
Unsubsidize it.
Want to fix science....and all other education. Start with administration and stop handing those elective seats to democrats. In Michigan, that means voting for these people (all republicans).
MEMBER OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Maria Carl
Jonathan Tade Williams
REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Rob Steele
Ronald Weiser
TRUSTEE OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Melanie Foster
Jeff Sakwa
GOVERNOR OF WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
Michael Busuito
Satish Jasti
Want to “fix” science? Stop doing politics!
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