Sure, everybody called me paranoid. They said that I did not have both my oars in the water. That my elevator did not quite make it to the top. That I was a few bricks shy of a full load. Well HA! I was right. Check this out!
Mooney documents conservative attempts to discredit science by promoting intelligent design and removing evolution from the classroom, obfuscating the negative impacts of tobacco and global warming and promoting the specious ABC (abortion-breast cancer) link as just several of many attempts to play to two of their core audiences: the religious right and corporations.
But I think countries like South Korea enjoy the fact that they're now leading the world in stem cell research rather than us. That's one field where other nations have leapt into the void that we have left. This is going to be the century of dramatic advances in biology and biotechnology and we are undermining the central theories of biological understanding with misinformation.
Intelligent Design is a sort of fundamental assault on the nature of scientific inquiry itself. Intelligent Design isn't a scientific explanationdoesn'tdoesn't have any explanatory power. We can't tell how the alleged designer achieved any of these wonderful feats Intelligent Design is supposed to achieve and we can't even investigate it because the designer is acting through supernatural means. So it's essentially a philosophical idea that's being dressed up as science and that undermines the very nature of science.
The bastards! It seems so short sighted to damage American education even if in the short run it ensures that there are people dumb enough to keep voting for them. I mean what happens when there are no more architects, or doctors, or inventors? What kind of third world nation are they trying to create here? I pepushingly am pushng my childreverythingrn everythng they can before the republicans outlaw books.
