Polluted?

As in the term "creation science" that some people want to sneak in the high school text books while discrediting evil-lution.

"Science" is being confused in the minds of people barely capable of keeping their reality separate from the "reality" shows they waste their lives voyeuring. They have no concept of what science is and as long as someone they like (or is like them in their minds) says "rubbish" to issues like global warming and environmental degradation, then they can sleep blissful in that ignorance.

It goes to the head in this crazy partisan world, where the President stacks science committees with "right thinking individuals" and any organization that releases information that is counter to their pre-determined polices are putting out "bad science".

The interp I get is that "bad science" is anything that prevents higher profits. How the two got connected in the first place show how poor critical thinking has become in this country.

Speaking of that, the recent election goes to show just how many misguided people there are in this country. When phalanxes of Nobel Prize winning scientist, many claiming never to take a political stance before, came out in public papers condemned the politicization of science, when members of his own party came out and used words like "incompetent" to describe his handling of foreign affairs and THEN to find this ineffective bumbler elected by a groundswell of zealots and single issue short sighted selfish individuals...... (sigh)

Science will continue to advance outside of US borders as a reverse brain drain begins to kick in. Can NATO stand another 4 years of Bush and Condi's arrogance? What a great choice for Sec of State THAT was, the very person who held the file "Bin Laden Plans to Attack the US" a month before the attack and did not ask questions or raise alarms.

Grief is what we will inherit.

America gets the leadership it deserves.

It is all cyclic, the top dog will eventually be run to ground. We have already passed our zenith. One can see that reflection in the greater discussion of "returning to values" and lamentations about the "founding fathers". America is looking backwards, not forward. We confuse science with propaganda and legal maneuvering. Just a glance over the history of the tobacco industry shows how "science" has become a political toy to play legal semantics with. America is having her day and what a sad chapter we are adding now.

(sorry for the rant)