Reply #5: I wonder if many really understand the implications...

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of this story. It is much easier to believe that the unions and those retirees are the biggest villains in the current state of the US auto industry.

Because after all, science and research really aren't important. Isn't that what the pubs have been saying with their war on science for most of the last 30 years and especially the last eight?

I have to say that it has been refreshing to watch Obama appointing actual scientists to science posts. Maybe attitudes will begin to change and I think that is the most important thing that needs to happen. People must begin to recognize the need for science and clear thinking rather than relying on the lies and fuzzy thinking of the past.