From The Daily Show, via Why Evolution is True, here’s a hard-hitting expose on the slick con called “science” that is scamming America.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Weathering Fights – Science – What’s It Up To? | ||||
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I am generally a fan of the two-party system. Sadly, at the moment in this country, one of the parties is completely crazy.
Update: Sorry that the video isn’t available outside the U.S. Note that Lisa Randall was a guest earlier on the show.
Mitt Romney has spent his entire campaign backtracking and repudiating his old pro-reality positions. So who knows how he would govern if elected?
And despite all this repudiating, he’s been mired at the same 25% support, and the rest of the party is desperately looking for some anyone-but-Romney candidate to the point where they’ll entertain total lunatic incompetents like Perry and Cain.
Huntsman is the ONLY candidate who has actively defended science in this election cycle and he’s within margin of error of zero.
The Republican party isn’t just crazy, it is downright dangerous to the future wellbeing of America, and indeed the entire world.
I’m in the pro-science camp, but I have to agree with Aasif Mandvi’s advice for aspiring scientists: run away as fast as you can (unless you’re aspiration is to do four postdocs and then become an adjunct professor at Oshkosh College).
If it were about scientific reasoning, you’d support the libertarian party (or no party at all.) No, its about funding your pet science projects… so you support whatever faction you believe most likely to use the force of government to steal from the few producers left in this country and give to you. We’re now running out of other people’s money – party’s over.
Eugenics…. the most recent deadly ideas of science is not so new….
Actually, Adolf Hitler started the Eugenics movement philosophy, E.g…. people that do not have or retain the genetic code of genius are therefore leaches to a society and should be terminated.
I think the real problems lies today in man’s belief system which is torn away from honesty and reason leading to love and development of life enhancing cures, to selfish containment of these discoveries so that new discoveries can be witheld for the purpose of future marketing for personal gain. Usually an incentive is introduced, such as some new found illness that simply must have the cure. We see this alot in the pharmacutical companies and their agenda driven vacinnation campaigns.
We live in an illusional world made up of false realities. Knowledge and science facinates me more than the best TV Show. By searching to find the answers to life and our personal lives within we must see reality and not for monetary profit; but rather for the profit to life itself.
TheUndefeatedLife
Maybe we need to stop letting civilians in space so we can get some real science accomplished http://bit.ly/ukBz1T