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2020-12-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Bobby 2020-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Ahhh, no wonder....

Posted by Clem 2020-12-25 00:08|| 2020-12-25 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 And they wonder why we don't believe in Climate Change, 234 genders, etc...

Or why people are skeptical about the Vaccine - or how bad the Virus really is.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-12-25 02:14|| 2020-12-25 02:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The dude's lower back must be shot from digging up and moving all those goalposts.

Posted by Raj 2020-12-25 08:47|| 2020-12-25 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.

Eisenhower's warning following the paragraph about the military industrial complex in his farewell address.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-25 09:46|| 2020-12-25 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 A NeverTrumper I am generally fond of responded to this with, “But Trump lied more.” He was completely uninterested in the idea that we expect more from scientists than we do from politicians, doubly disappointing because he worked as a scientist before moving on to management.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-25 10:00|| 2020-12-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

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