PostModernProphet:
Personally I believe humans and dinosaurs did coexist....
Mott the Hoople:
This has to be one of the all time stupid threads I've ever seen on JPP.
Concur. But ya gotta admit, it’s almost worth the moments of pure comedy gold, provided by PMP and Yurt, et.al.
I wonder why the
Jesus Rode a Dinosaur cabal is, in large measure the same cabal the were easily duped into supporting the Iraq fiasco, and are the same one in full on denial about climate science? The correlation between scientific illiteracy and the rightwing doesn’t appear to be random or inconsequential.
It's questionable to claim outright that state-financed research institutions are environments of free inquiry.
As well, and not to be dramatic or jump to conclusions, but isn't a global expansion of socialist policy a motivation for politically-biased science as it relates to climate change?
I'm not saying these folks will get what they want, but you can't say they don't have a motive aside from saving the planet.
Finally. After wading through reams of teabagger nonsense and hilarity, an island of sanity and an intelligent contribution.
No offense, but I'd like to see some real world, actual examples of what you're asserting about modern science.
No doubt the Nazi's hijacked science for political purposes. And I would submit that the subservience of science and engineering to the military industrial complex constitutes a warped and political-driven hijacking of science. But your assertion, more broadly, would be a massive conspiracy, on a global scale, that I'd like to see a preponderance of evidence for. It sounds very fantastical, frankly too fantastical to be boiled down to an unsubstantiated slogan on a message board.
But, in terms of all the great purely academic scientific theories of the last century, where are these real-world examples of science being hijacked by liberals and socialists for political ends? Science is practiced all over the world, in thousands of research universities. I would like to see some real world examples of science, on a global basis, somehow being hijacked by nefarious liberals using the tools of the state to do their bidding.
I can't think of one single major scientific theory advanced this century by acamedicians, that amounts to a cabal of liberal politization. The theory of realativity, black holes, plate tectonics, genetics. Even the environmental sciences......science spent decades studying the effects of cigarrete smoke on human health, or the effects of chemical carcinogens. And you know what happened? The "liberal" scientists were right all along. It was the pawns of corporate profit who fought with every fiber of their being, to keep the scientific facts from getting out, or being considered in the realm of public policy. The same sh*t is going on today with climate science. The corruption of science, or the roadblocks being thrown in the way of legitimate academic scientific investigation is largely, like it always has, come from reactionary elements; e.g., the church, the money men, the corporations, and other vested interests of financial power.
