A Visit from the Stork

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.

4 thoughts on “A Visit from the Stork

  1. 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).

  2. 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!

    (Refrain) Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
    With the cross of Jesus, gonna kill some more!

    At the sign of triumph Satan laughs with glee;
    On then, Christian soldiers, burn and rape then flee!
    Hell’s foundations grow weak at the shouts of priests;
    Brothers lift your voices, be thee Christian beasts!

    (Refrain) Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
    With the cross of Jesus, gonna kill some more!

    Like a deadly army moves the church of God;
    Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod.
    We are not divided, all one body we,
    One in lust and hatred, one in misery.

    (Refrain) Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
    With the cross of Jesus, gonna kill some more!

    What the saints established that I hold for true.
    What the saints believ’ed, that I believe too.
    Long as earth endureth, men the faith will hold,
    Kingdoms, nations, empires, in destruction rolled.

    (Refrain) Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
    With the cross of Jesus, gonna kill some more!

    Crowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and fall,
    But the church of Jesus constant will screw all.
    Gates of Hell can never ‘gainst that church prevail;
    We’ve been there already, we pave Christ’s blood trail.

    (Refrain) Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
    With the cross of Jesus, gonna kill some more!

    Onward then, ye people, join our happy throng,
    Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
    Glory, laud and honor unto Christ the King,
    Give all that you cherish or lose everything.

    Patriot Act, National Defense Authorization Act. You cannot be shriven until you are cleansed. S.1867 is signed into law. Section 1021: the federal government exercises authority to indefinitely detain anyone, anywhere, if it deems them a threat in the fight against terror. This would be a good time to acquire a high powered rifle and steel-cored ammo.

  3. argh.

    before you checkout at Best Buy or the Apple Store with your latest tech gadget, you have to pass a simple science literacy test.

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