Bush is the enemy of science

[_TJ_]

The know-nothings

Pro-business Republicans and the religious right have joined in a frighteningly successful campaign to undermine the findings of science.

By Andrew O'Hehir


Sept. 14, 2005 | It took almost no time for the devastation of New Orleans, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to become the newest beachhead in the science wars. On the evening of Sept. 1, when the waters were still rising and we had no idea how much worse things were still going to get, Brit Hume devoted an extended segment of his Fox News program to interviewing Patrick J. Michaels, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia.

Michaels' purpose, and Hume's, was to rebut a widely circulated Op-Ed article by Ross Gelbspan in the Boston Globe arguing that Katrina, and a host of other natural disasters, had been caused or exacerbated by the effects of global warming. A likable, slightly acerbic fellow who refers to himself as a "weather nerd," Michaels told the Fox audience in judicious, neutral-sounding language that there isn't much correlation between global warming and hurricane strength -- and added, almost as an afterthought, that there isn't much we can do about global warming anyway.

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/09/14/mooney/index.html

[norml]

1. It's not just science, reality is their enemy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4753528

[tives12]

2. Yet he is keen on going to the moon.

And maybe even flying the shuttle himself.

[Lindsay]

3. I'll donate to that cause,

provided it's a one-way ticket.

[tives12]

4. I'd give up everything I have.

Because I am sure that he doesn't know what one-way ticket means.

[_TJ_]

5. His brain has been living on the moon for years n/t

[tives12]

6. Especially during Vietnam....oh wait, we aren't supposed to know that.

[libertypirate]

7. Bush is against any process that turns knowledge into understanding

Without understanding knowledge is based on belief, you can't have understanding without thought. Bush is the enemy of thinking, especially deep thought.

[Dukkha]

8. Ned Flanders summed it up best for them

"Science is like a blabber mouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. Well I say that there are some thing we don't wanna know. Important things!"

That is truly how they think