Let's remember that Europeans killed off all their megafauna too, then invaded the western hemisphere and slaughtered the buffalo, then slaughtered the Native Americans along with them. Euro-centric white scientists point the finger of blame for mass extinction of mammoths at the aboriginal populations of North America and Australia but are blind to their own role in the perpetuation of the stereotype of Native Americans as savages.
I don't agree that politcal ranting has no place in science. Science is not objective. Quite the opposite -- numbers can be manipulated, and statistics can be used to prove any point. Thus, it is necessary for scientists to be socially and politically responsible for their studies and findings. To claim otherwise. . . well, look at the Nazis.
Weed out the spammers by requiring a membership exam: Make a lengthy, difficult multiple choice test (questions picked at random from a large database to prevent cheating) where you have to score really high to be able to post to any discussion boards.
Wait a minute. That means I'd have to be able to pass an exam to post this message. Crap.
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Let's remember that Europeans killed off all their megafauna too, then invaded the western hemisphere and slaughtered the buffalo, then slaughtered the Native Americans along with them. Euro-centric white scientists point the finger of blame for mass extinction of mammoths at the aboriginal populations of North America and Australia but are blind to their own role in the perpetuation of the stereotype of Native Americans as savages.
I don't agree that politcal ranting has no place in science. Science is not objective. Quite the opposite -- numbers can be manipulated, and statistics can be used to prove any point. Thus, it is necessary for scientists to be socially and politically responsible for their studies and findings. To claim otherwise. . . well, look at the Nazis.
Weed out the spammers by requiring a membership exam: Make a lengthy, difficult multiple choice test (questions picked at random from a large database to prevent cheating) where you have to score really high to be able to post to any discussion boards.
Wait a minute. That means I'd have to be able to pass an exam to post this message. Crap.