A Visit from the Stork | swans on tea

Why doesn’t America like science?

The views that Bloomberg considers “mind-boggling” are not outliers, or not outside the coastal areas such as New York, where he resides.
But common or not, the spread of this sentiment is leaving many American scientists alarmed. Last month, New Scientist magazine warned in an editorial that science is now under unprecedented intellectual attack in America. “When candidates for the highest office in the land appear to spurn reason, embrace anecdote over scientific evidence, and even portray scientists as the perpetrators of a massive hoax, there is reason to worry,” it thundered.

Perhaps people think that new products and innovation are the result of the technology fairy, rather than application of the underlying science and that the technology works by magic.

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It is interesting that many Americans tend to have an anti-intellectual view of science, yet tend to embrace new technology whole-heartedly. Meanwhile, Europeans often have a more positive intellectual outlook towards science, yet are more skeptical of some new technologies (genetically-modified crops for example).

There is but one true sin in Yahweh’s inerrant documentation – knowledge, starting in the Garden of Eden. Though shalt shop in the Company store. God’s dominion is ignorance, poverty, hunger, disease, filth, death, and silk-clad priests with whips. Can God make a collection plate so vast that even He cannot fill it? Sure! ALL OF THEM. The Church is making a killing in Africa, as it did in Ireland.

Add the Left wherein process always supercedes product. An advocate makes virtue of failure. The worse the cure the better the treatment – and the more that is required. Social advocacy maintains the crap level as its bottom is dredged ever deeper. Nine Steps to Social Equity (no carry arithmetic allowed):

All voices have equal merit.
Objective quality is not value, it is discrimination.
Historically repressed voices have priority and subsidy.
Historically repressive voices are denied.
Culture will never bow to society.
No incident can pass examination and also be “innocent.”
Failure to embrace diversity demands re-education.
Productivity is confiscated for reward to the deserving.
Equity is not average or majority, equity is 100%.

Now… EVERYBODY SING!

Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus, gonna kill some more!
Christ, the royal Master, loves to bathe in blood;
Forward into battle, suck His holy pud!