The Decline of Science and Technology in America

puke76 writes "There's a good article over on the BBC about the decline of science and technology in the U.S.. Vint Cerf and others are going on record to voice their concerns about the current administrations recipe for 'irrelevance and decline.' Scientists are increasingly concerned about the White House's pandering to the religious right at science's expense. From the article: 'radically we have moved away from regulation based on professional analysis of scientific data ...to regulation controlled by the White House and driven by political considerations.'"

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Vinton Cerf

[puke76]

Vint Cerf may be the father of the Internet..

... but we're the mothers that have to make it work!

Re:Are you kidding?

[fuzza]

Christians like Newton, Darwin and Galileo.

Why stop there? Let's keep going:

• Johannes Kepler
• Robert Boyle
• Carl Linnaeus
• Leonhard Euler
• Georges Cuvier
• Michael Faraday
• Samuel Morse
• Charles Babbage
• Michael Maury
• James Joule
• Louis Pasteur
• Gregor Mendel
• William Thomson (aka Lord Kelvin)
• Joseph Lister
• James Clerk Maxwell
• John Ambrose Fleming
• George Washington Carver
• The Wright Bros.
• Wernher von Braun
• Louis Agassiz
• Francis Bacon
• David Brewster
• John Dalton
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Humphry Davy
• Arthur Eddington
• Henri Fabre
• Joseph Henry
• John Herschel
• William Herschel
• William Huggins
• Richard Kirwan
• Blaise Pascal
• William Prout
• William Ramsay
• John Ray
• Bernhard Riemann
• James Young Simpson
• Nicolaus Steno
• George Stokes
• John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh)
• Percy Tait
• Rudolph Virchow
• John Woodward

I'd like some comments on this bit by C. S. Lewis

[jgm]

Anyone care to comment on this?

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