Posted on 02/09/2005 5:03:50 PM PST by srm913
By Siva: Siva Vaidhyanathan
We are all too familiar with the frontal assaults that the Bush administration has launched against science, truth, and rationality. Bush has stacked advisory boards with ideologues, screened scientific appointees for political affiliations, declared academic expertise in areas such as environmental damage and global warming to be tantamount to a "conflict of interest," pushed lies on federal Web sites claiming that there is a link between abortions and cancer, here, spread more lies about the ways people can spread HIV, and had his henchmen threaten scientists who protest these acts with retribution.
Meanwhile, federal policy continues to ignore the facts of global warming and push for the technically unfeasible (and ultimately worthless) boondoggle of missile defense. And school districts across America are scaling back or dumbing down their science curricula so that people who deny basic facts about the universe do not get too offended.
Then last week the most embarrassing new member of United States Senate, Tom Coburn said:
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Worse, I hear he once hailed a taxi in a no standing zone.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20000313&s=alterman
Old Eric Alterman but it just exposes his extreme bent.
This article feels like a semi-uncensored look right into the brain of a liberal. Can you imagine what it must be like having this stuff going around-and-around 24/7?
A friend of mine is a biochemist and a liberal and HATES Bush, and she would agree 100% with what Frist said. For a doctor to flat out say "NO, you can't pass AIDS through tears and sweat" would be a lie.
It's unlikely, but you can't say no. It's as simple as that.
HIV has been found in the saliva and tears of some persons living with HIV, but in very low quantities. It is important to understand that finding a small amount of HIV in a body fluid does not necessarily mean that HIV can be transmitted by that body fluid. HIV has not been recovered from the sweat of HIV-infected persons. Contact with saliva, tears, or sweat has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV.
This is from a non-conservative site, and though it emphasizes that no one has gotten AIDS from tears, saliva or sweat, it states first that HIV has been found in such fluids.
Sorry, George and MSNBC, but to state flat-out that AIDS CAN'T be transmitted through them would be a lie.
You suggest that George, Eric or Siva would be concerned with the truth?
Only if it suits their purpose...
OTOH, "truly unhinged" is a good description of these poor, blind opinions. I'm thinking they're somewhat more dangerous, but I don't have words for the bile they spew.
...but the most unforgivable thing he's done is WIN. BIG. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! They'll never get over it...
Duck, duck, goose ..... and, since we've got a poultry analogy going here, Chicken Siva Little: "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" Another fairy tale.
cuhhhhhhhRAP!
How do you get to BE a henchman, anyway?
Do you need a degree? In what?
Is there a school?
Alterman also wrote a book titled "What Liberal Bias?" He's a real good example of that bias.
He has been snippy and all out of sorts…at Bush he's really p*ssed
Poor Eric Alterman needs a new gynecologist
He has had migraines and he has had cramps…oh, why must these pains persist
Poor Eric Alterman needs a new gynecologist
Out of control…he's an a-hole
He writes his B.S. in the Nation…Eric needs new medication
Down on his kneepads when Clinton would call…he'd say "If you insist"
Poor Eric Alterman needs a new gynecologist
Out of control…he's an a-hole
He writes his B.S. in the Nation…Eric needs new medication
Girly man Eric warns FReepers they'll get…a slap with his limp wrist
Poor Eric Alterman needs a…he's desperate and needs right away
A new gynecologist
INTREP - Interesting how these people and are 180 degrees apart. Amazing!
What extreme bend. He ps just another fair and balanced super freak from ultraleft acedemia spouting off psuedo-intellectual pap like he did in his his October 3rd tome - Why Bush is Losing
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/2004/10/why-bush-is-losing.html
From http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/vaidhyanathan.html
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Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Anarchist in the Library: The Moral Panics over Copyright and Free Speech
Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including The Dallas Morning News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, and The Nation. He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues, and his research has been profiled by programs on National Public Radio, CNN, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, International Herald-Tribune Television, Pacifica Radio, Voice of America, and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. /end snip
from his NYU bio (at the NYU link above)
Corruptible Voting Machines - Why the Silence at:
http://progressivetrail.org/articles/031211Vaidhyanathan.shtml
You can reach him through his dot edu site at (sivav@pobox.com)
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/
However, be careful when googling his name and some of his past haunts like Buffalo or you will run into some weird hentai sites and an apparent fascination with Christine Aguillera's panties.
Interesting article on him at
http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i13/13a02901.htm
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He grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., but enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Texas in part to be near Austin's vibrant music scene, and his grades suffered for all the time he spent at clubs and Longhorn football games./end snip
OOPS! sorry for the double his and the ps...preview, preview!
The only thing worse than no education, is education designed to ensure that the students leave the class more illeterate than when they enrolled.
Precisely. I've met many a lad with no university education who would blow away some of the chattering class members with hurricanes of common sense and character.
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