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[Phys-L] Re: The Republican War On Science

Bob: The title is the name of a new "non-fiction" book which I posted earlier
this month, along with the ISBN. It is available at Barnes and Nobles.

The crux of the book revolves around the insistence on presidential
appointments being made to persons with avowed pseudoscience leanings. For
example, a recent appointment to the FDA (for reproductive biology
pharmaceutical research) was a person who contends that women need to cure
their PMS by prayer, alone, so that further research on such medication is
unnecessary.

Repeatedly, this president has attempted to "modify scienctific evidence" by
eliminating grants for research which indicates results that are contrary to
his pre-determined (religious) conclusions. That is Bush's idea of doing
science, ie, start with the conclusion (usually derived from fundamentalist
biblical interpretation), and proceed to prove that the conclusion is correct
by ignoring any evidence which does not fit the starting point conclusion.

Regarding political party, I am sure that others can list such behavior from
the Democratic party's appointees, but I have not seen them. So, please, do
post examples for the rest of us to consider. Or, accept the conclusion that
Federal Grant funding rests on fitting your research to prove the "acceptable"
pre-conceived answer. Karl

Quoting rlamont <rlamont@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU>:

The subject line is absurd. The is no more a Republican "War" on
science then there is a Democratic "war" to turn the country
socialist. These are positions taken by extremists on both sides
and we must guard against ALL of this nonsense.

I was amused that your link led to a radio station from the
People's Republic of Berkely :-)

Bob at PC

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Subject: The Republican War On Science

The author interviewed on KPFA.org


7:30 PDT today (15 minutes)

This may work:

http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=aud-
one.kpfa.org&port=8000&mount=icy_0&file=dummy.m3u


bc

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