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Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science?
smooth wombat writes "As a follow-up to a recently posted Slashdot article, Reuters UK has an article which poses the question: is the U.S. becoming hostile to science? From the article: 'Among the most significant forces is the rising tide of anti-science sentiment that seems to have its nucleus in Washington but which extends throughout the nation,' said Stanford's Philip Pizzo in a letter posted on the school Web site on October 3. Cornell acting President Hunter Rawlings, in his state of the university address last week, spoke about the challenge to science represented by intelligent design which holds that the theory of evolution accepted by the vast majority of scientists is fatally flawed. Rawlings said the dispute was widening political, social, religious and philosophical rifts in U.S. society. 'When ideological division replaces informed exchange, dogma is the result and education suffers,' he said." What is your take?
Wow, you're right: Slashdot desperately needs "+5 Right" and "-5 Wrong" modifiers.
+5 Right for you.
Moderator hint: a comment is neither "Flamebait" nor "Troll" if it is true.
Just give me the -5 Wrong. It'd be like the BFG of moderations.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
I've often thought we need a "-2 Completely Wrong" modifier.
i've been reading this site since around 1997, but never signed up for the forums until recently. i hardly think the amount of time i've spent reading /. has anything to do with the validity of my point.
i remember reading an article last year about greasemonkey, and how a lot of people used it to do things like "make slashdot less ugly". face it dude, the site is ugly.
you're "contentless" baloney schpiel doesn't take into account the fact that the page could be made to look vastly better without affecting the content in anyway. The best way to help it would be to take out all of the green bars in the first place, and make it more minimalistic and legible. but the color scheme is so annoying it makes it hard to focus on the content. a LOT of peope agree with this, otherwise they woulddn't be going so far as to mess with how their browser displays it.
yours is a typical geek rant, because geeks are clueless about ui. they are notorious for it.