Not to put too fine a point on it
A very angry Bruce Garrett,
who works at the Space Telescope Science Institute, has figured out why
the Bush administration is so woeful when it comes to science (and just
about everything else): [Davos Newbies]
"This is exactly why they hate science.
Lies are what brought them to power. Lies are what hope will keep them
in power. Lies, and whatever fear of their power they can manage to
instill in others. Theirs is the morality of thugs and criminals. The
practice of science represents everything they loath and fear and
resent about the human status, that they themselves have long since
renounced. It empowers, because knowledge is power, whereas in their
zero sum view of life and existance, any power gained by others, is
less for themselves. Science proceeds from the evidence, not the
dictates of authority. Science is a noble endevor, encouraging and
rewarding the best within us, curiosity, thoughtfulness, a desire to
learn, a courage to follow knowledge wherever it leads, a habit of
truth. More then the contradictions to their cherished dogmas, it is
the vision of the nobility which is possible to the human race,
reminding the thugs and cheats of the world of what they sold out, of
the empty void they've made of their inner selves, that they hate about
the practice of science. It's not just that they want the facts bent to
suit their policies, it's that they want practice of science to be
finally regarded as the heresy they have always regarded it as being:
the heresy that says there is more to life, and to what it is to be
human, then the gutter they live in."
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