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The Canadian Government's War On Science
FuzzNugget writes "A contributor at ScienceBlogs.com has compiled and published a shockingly long list of systematic attacks on scientific research committed by the Canadian government since the conservatives came to power in 2006. This anti-scientific scourge includes muzzling scientists, shutting down research centers, industry deregulation and re-purposing the National Research Council to align with business interests instead of doing real science. It will be another two years before Canadians have the chance to go to the polls, but how much more damage will be done in the meantime?"
Exactly.
There may be a few pure science projects on the list, but they are hard to find, and should have been the bailiwick of University Research
at best, not National government paper shuffling bureaucracies that take on a life of their own.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
We're all just still waiting on the change to come.
The wait is over, it's here.
A special prosecutor in the IRS matter is inevitable
IRS Official Lois Lerner: 'I Have Not Done Anything Wrong'
IRS tea-party bloodbath continues in Congress, as evidence emerges that IRS's own internal probe ended in May 2012, six months before election, but was hidden from legislators
Report: 'Rogue' IRS Agent Claim Unraveling
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
says the AC who reads HuffPo and gets news from John Stewart.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Daily Mail and Breitbart are more trustworthy than MSNBC or CNN these days, simply because they post news and analysis nobody else will. Sorry, the MSM is in the tank for the administration doesn't help your case. You may not like the political bent, but facts are facts, and if you're not getting all of them, you're being lied to.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
It has to become the defacto mission of all science to find the conservative gene(s) and prevent their future expression in humans. All scientists have to consider that THIS is their most pressing goal. The problems we face, the serious ones like global warming, religious extremism or the so called "clash of civilizations", gigantic disparities in wealth distribution and the follow on problems of crime, war and civil unrest ,aren't fundamentally problems with technology or the lack of basic science needed to address the issues. They're the result of the actions of conservatives, of non-egalitarian greedheads and religious fanatics all of whom are the conservatives within their respective societies.
Conservatism isn't a "point of view". It's a disease. It's a sickness that causes your ability to reason, to impartially process evidence, to effectively short circuit if such evidence would otherwise lead you to change one of your beliefs.
And about those beliefs. Anti-egalitarian, hierarchical, authoritarian, unempathetic to the point of sociopathy and concerned only with immediate and personal gratification. It's what John Kenneth Galbraith said :
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
looking back it's never been any different. They go after science, historically via religion but lately they've dropped that facade and admit it's just for money, for centuries. Centuries.
In the West they opposed *every* *single* *advancement* in civil society, equality and anything tending towards egalitarian outcomes for centuries and int he East, they stil do that.
They fly buildings into planes, try to get a hold of nuclear weapons for the purpose of wage war on civilians populations, in India and Pakistan they set fire to and behead their opponents, in America they bomb buildings , shoot doctors, lie about climate change, decimate the environment for all future generations and rape the economy .
When is enough enough? When will scientists finally admit that we don't have technological problems, we have problems with the behavior and proclivities and thinking of conservatives and begin to look at it like the engineering problem it is. The conservative gene is a dangerous anachronism which, if left unaddressed will extinguish civilization through one means or another.
Pretty much any gun control legislation fits the bill.
Do you have ESP?