[extropy-chat] Nature magazine: BUSH vs KERRY on science

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> "In the build-up to the US presidential election, science is making
>  a sizeable impact on the political agenda. But what will another 
> four years of George W. Bush mean for science, compared with
> a term under Democratic challenger John Kerry? 
> 
> To find out, Nature has asked the two candidates 15 questions 
> about their science policies."
> 
>       The following does not require a susbscription. 
> 
> http://www.nature.com/news/specials/uselection/index.html
> 
> 
> Climate change
> Kerry advocates stricter stance on greenhouse-gas emissions.

Not a scientifically defensible stance.

> 
> Yucca Mountain
> Fate of nuclear waste dump divides candidates.

Opposition to Yucca Mountain is not a scientific stance.

> 
> Stem cells
> Candidates take opposing stances on medical research.

Bush is not opposed to stem cell research per se, but opposed to
spending taxpayer dollars on PUBLIC FUNDED RESEARCH on anything more
than the stem cell lines already in existence at a previous date.

> 
> Nuclear weapons research
> Need for new bomb tests questioned.

How many scientists believe that real world experiments are always
preferable to simulations for good science?

> 
> Manipulation of science
> Bush administration stands accused of distorting science.

And the luddite/green/socialist left is not? Excuse me, but it is the
actions of the left that created the term "junk science", from mice
getting cancer from 10 lb daily diets of saccharin, alar, and other
prefectly safe substances, to Michio Kaku's opposition to the Cassini
probe launch on nuclear risk grounds, to scientists getting forests put
off limits because the are 'potential' habitat for endangered species,
not ACTUALLY habitat, to all the bogus science in favor of the
anthropogenic global warming theory. Gimme a freaking break.

It is clear that the Kerry campaign presents a pro-science stance but
is actually against REAL science and for junk science supported public
hysteria. It is also clear that Bush properly believes that science is
not something that the federal government should be funding, it is not
explicitly given that power or responsibility in the US Constitution.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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