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Politicizing Science
An anonymous reader writes: "The Washington Post has a story about the government's efforts to remove independent scientific review boards and replace them with officials that match the views of administration. This includes careless elimination of life-saving safety regulations in gene-therapy to help specific business interests and hiring based on political views such as stem cell research and cloning. Is this wrong? Or do those with power get to do whatever they want?"
Is this wrong? Or do those with power get to do whatever they want?
What is the point of power if you can't wield it from time to time. If we don't like the way the education system is being run we vote em out of office and get someone new.
Much better than an unelected quango situation where the public can do nothing!
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." --George W. Bush, May 5, 2000
With statements like that from their leader I'd hate to see what US govt officials have to say about embryo cell research and cloning...
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Not.
-Kevin
Let me spell it out for you.
80% of the world's Catholics live below the poverty line.
Let me spell it out for you: more than 80% of the world's population live below the poverty line. Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and all. Do you seriously think you have made a logical point?
Catholicism is a disease that preys on the poor and ignorant.
If so, you must be at least half-Catholic. Don't know if you are poor, but you fit the second condition perfectly! (Applying your own style of logic, of course.)
Excuse me, but I am the Creator of the Universe. Some people do consider me a borderline-psychopathic Thug - I admit, encouraging competing religions was a bad idea, not to mention the creation of trolls - what was I thinking? But no-one in their right minds would call Me a liberal. In fact, I have a good mind to smite thee for even thinking that!
But on second thoughts, smiting might be a tad psychopathic, and I've been trying to ease up on that a bit, since the whole World War II thing. I'll have to settle for having one of My acolytes mod you down.
Pierce said of the interview questions: "Those are not litmus tests."
But he's right! Litmus tests use paper strips, and the interview was clearly done over the phone!
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Hey,
if the general public doesn't want to fund research into XXX, then those scientists should not receive a penny of taxpayer's money.
Now that's one area I'd be happy to 'research' for free...
Michael
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion