Can't address the real problem though. We have to pretend that Whitey is the problem.
The church was the government.
Now, our government rules. But this time, the church is right. You don't kill babies. You don't promote perversion. You don't tell God he's doing a rotten job in the climate category...
Man is sooooo arrogant. It is and always will be his downfall.
This essay is part ofthe problem. It’s just more politicization of science.
I don’t buy his premise that politicians have authority on science matters or that their opinions on scientific issues (usually sensationalist, borderline science issues) are of any interest or importance.
Just more whining is how I see this essay.
I like the realclearscience site.
Some of what they said is actually true, but then they get to the bottom line, standard leftist "If only we were dictators and didn't have to listen to all you unwashed bitter clingers, we'd REALLY get something done!" The "politicians are so much smarter than we are, they have not only the responsibility, but the ability and intelligence to solve any problem" meme. I'm surprised half of those guys, and ESPECIALLY the ones craving more power to dictate unpopular policy, are even able to find their way to the office in the morning.
The electorate, while admittedly sometimes moronic, is still substantially smarter than the average politician. Freeing scum-sucking politicians from the minor strings of accountability that still [slightly] restrain them is extremely unlikely to produce better results than we have now.
The Fukushima reactors withstood the earthquake and tsunamis. The meltdowns were caused by electrical failures. That can happen anywhere. Now that the cost of nuclear failure is clear and has been repeated several times, nuclear power is over.
Politicians are to science what a 5th grade girl is to math.
I've been to DU, and on my braver days over to DailyKos and MoveOn.org. I believe this number may be too high.
Why should more than 28% of Americans be scientifically literate? Most people aren't capable of scientific understanding and most people probably shouldn't even consider college [if colleges were what they used to be].
And there's nothing wrong with that. It's just that our benighted public education system has, from the beginning, been given the impossible task of educating everyone -- even those who don't want an education and those who aren't educable.
All we've accomplished by insisting on educating everyone is to dumb the whole system down to the point where we barely educate anyone. And provide a lot of well-paying jobs for teachers, too, of course.