New Science Museum - Now With Real Science!

OpenYourEyes writes "There is a new science museum, run by the National Academy of Science, that has opened in DC. So what? Unklike many museums which simplify their message or use fake data, the exhibits at the Koshland Science Museum are all based on real research, real reports, and real science. Each one contains references to the research reports and data they are based on. Exhibits on DNA, for example, use actual (and long!) DNA sequences to help illustrate how DNA plays a role in disease, agriculture, and criminology. There are also exhibits on Global Climate Change and The Wonders of Science."

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Nuclear exhibit

[DR SoB]

I can't wait to see there exhibit on nuclear power, that'd be cool!

Real science. . ? Uh huh. Pull the other one.

[Fantastic Lad]

There is vast knowledge living in the world today; knowledge which can blow open the shutters of the human mind and which is not being shared and which will certainly not be found in the halls of a public museum.

Big Government and big Corporate bodies lie and lie and lie. Keeping secrets is the name of the game! And who funds such extravagant projects as 'Halls of Science' and 'Museums'? When the Government will only tell you about the fighter jets it was building twenty years ago, and when Corporate America won't tell how it promotes illness through the food it sells with its Left hand, while promoting half-cures with the drugs it sells with the Right. . .

Oh, yes. These power bodies are certainly not going to hold anything back when they build a public brain-washing sanctum like a museum! (Sarcasm!)

Science is about the search for truth. So then what greater hypocrisy can you find than the Government/corporate funded 'science' museum?

"But they are not telling lies!"

Oh, but they are! A lie by omission, by inference. . . The most clever of lies work in the most clever of ways. Advertisers understand; The greatest lie sold by an advertiser is that people are not affected by advertising. --And there is no division here! These are the same people who build all the museums.

While a museum may delight us with examples of apple-on-the-head science in all its many glories, the broad picture painted is one of, "Here Is What We Clever Humans Know!" --A severely limited and false picture which so many people go away feeling great comfort and self-satisfaction in believing. Brain washing!

The universe is far more amazing than your keepers want you to know. But that's okay. Nobody can keep knowledge from you if you are determined to go and find it out for yourself.

Get out of the antiseptic halls of the museum and jump into the real world beyond. As the museum brochures claim, "There is so much to see and do, you can't possibly fit it all into one day!"

-FL