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Re: [Phys-L] Does anyone doubt that one political party is against science and education?



On 7/1/2012 9:26 PM, Marty Weiss wrote:
That's the problem... Scientists are reluctant to get involved even though their bread and butter is severely threatened by the forces that would cut off their funding or worse of any projects they object to through religious or narrowminded misthinking. It's time that somebody started calling it like it is and stopped being so timid.

YES... there are whole groups of people who ARE ignorant and antiscience and they need to be confronted, not shied away from!

That may be so, but there are other much more appropriate venues for
doing so. On a physics list, we should talk about physics. If we
discussed every topic that was tangentially related to physics or
education on this list, the signal-to-noise ratio would become so low
that the list would be worthless.

If the Texachusylvania Republicratic party had passed a law defining g
to be 9.8000000 m/s^2 everywhere in the universe, that would be different.
--
Jeff Bigler
Lynn English HS; Lynn, MA, USA
"Magic" is what we call Science before we understand it.