I heard on the car today (Rush’s show) that next week Newt is going to debate John Kerry on the issue of global warming.
There was no further information regarding the date or the venue hosting the debate.
Newt will win this hands down. Not only because a lot of this is hype, but because Newt is brilliant and Kerry is an intellectual lightweight, to put it mildly.
but he sure can toss those medals, eh..
In the late 1940’s Russian scientists had found themselves subjected to the political witch hunting by Stalin's regime. Before that such witch hunting was limited to poets, artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians, who often saw their works assailed by communist officials on the grounds of "ideological impurity" or "bourgeois influence". That time science and scientists became the victim. In a really Orwellian style genetics, psychologists and cybernetics were fired, exiled and even killed. But the most alarming and often overlooked fact is that Lysenkoism was not an aberration or "excess" but a natural product of Stalinism. Moreover an important observation that the author is trying to communicate by writing this paper is that while the original form was a byproduct of Stalinism, the phenomenon itself is more universal and can be considered as a special, previously unknown flavor of high demand cult. For simplicity we will call if technocult. This paper tried to show that Lysenkoism was the first successful attempt to transplant high demand religious cults methods into scientific community and should be understood as such. The main point of this paper is that Lysenkoism is not only about intellectual pogrom, destruction of real science by pseudoscience committed in the name of a particular political agenda and more or less openly supported by the ruling party/government officials. It is also (and probably more important) a self-sustainable cult-like system of distortions, omissions, and lies that are designed to support faulty or fraudulent research of the selected "politically correct" pseudo-scientists. In this sense it's closely related to "cargo cult" phenomenon that is better known in the Western hemisphere as well as science distortions that are associated with the military-industrial complex....SO MUCH FOR 'ENLIGHTEN' SCIENCE
...Lysenkoism, a self-sustainable cult-like system of distortions, omissions, and lies that are designed to support faulty or fraudulent research of the selected "politically correct" pseudo-scientists....
Hmmmm....$CIENCE FOR DOLLARS,just follow the $$$$ trail.
Newt will win this hands down.
Newt will have read Kerry's book; something Kerry has not done.
“I heard on the car today (Rush’s show) that next week Newt is going to debate John Kerry on the issue of global warming.”
Just wait for Newt to debate Rudy. Newt will have good practice for that by debating Kerry, since so many of Kerry and Rudy’s positions are so similar.