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



To misappropriate your tag line... "Magic is what some people call science because they don't understand it."
Maybe we should move this argument to the physics and society group. But it is too important to ignore and we must take a stand somewhere, sometime, or else we will wake up one day and find that the textbooks say the earth is 6000 years old, humans are the masters of all they perceive- the environment be damned, and all creatures were created at the same time, dinosaurs being the creatures that got left behind at the great flood. Too many people in powerful places already believe these things for the rest of us to keep quiet about it.
So, move the argument to another group if we must, but we'd better not let it die.

On Jul 1, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Jeff Bigler wrote:

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.

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