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To: Steely Tom
“How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?"

Please allow me to help you out there, Professor. "Global Warming" theory is driven by government grants to academics.

35 posted on 10/14/2015 5:03:46 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DJ Taylor

It is worth pointing out that in the same speech in which he warned of the Military-Industrial Complex, Eisenhower also warned of the Government-Big Science Complex.

“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”


65 posted on 10/14/2015 5:29:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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