The journal Nature has an editorial this week. They’re not thrilled about the current rise in the anti-science mood in the country, enabled by an anti-science administration (hint: not Obama) and broadcast widely by the likes of Rush, Beck and Palin and FOX.
“US citizens face economic problems that are all too real, and the country’s future crucially depends on education, science and technology as it faces increasing competition from China and other emerging science powers. . . . Yet the public often buys into anti-science, anti-regulation agendas that are orchestrated by business interests and their sponsored think tanks and front groups.”
We’re blind and probably deserve what we get.
"You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.” - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
We’re blind and probably deserve what we get.
Sadly, these are my thoughts well as the eyesight dims darkness slowly descends.
What is worse, when the blindness is complete, the scientists and the intellectuals will be blamed for America’s decline.
Sorry – it is barely 7:00 AM and politics are already depressing me this morning.
If the opposition is supported by reason, attack reason.
It comes down to science vs. religion and religion is a lot easier.
Yeah – no homework required.
Yeah, no math!
Or thinking.
This quote seems particularly appropriate:
Anti-intellectualism is nurtured by the false notion that democracy means ‘my ignorance is as good as your knowledge’. -Isaac Asimov
Wow. That one goes on my quote page.
OMG – here is an even more frightening anti-science anti-intellectual claim directly referencing Galileo. I like to think it is a joke – but I am not so sure….
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/upload/2010/09/geocentrism_was_galileo_wrong/conference.jpeg
Ten years ago I would have assumed it was a prank. Today? Not so much.