Source: Star Tribune, Minnesota Netlets for Thursday, Sept. 18
Last update: September 18, 2008 - 3:36 PM
Contempt for science has threatening implications
The massive Hadron Collider in Europe ("The nature of the universe," Sept.
11) is another obvious example that the United States is no longer No. 1 in
science.
Under the Bush administration, our best scientists have been leaving in
droves to other countries for better opportunities due to the politicization
of issues ranging from embryonic stem cell research to climate change. This
should come as no surprise to Republicans given their gleeful cheers for
John McCain's new fundamentalist V.P. candidate.
Why would religious zealots fund scientific research, anyway? Why should we
strive to understand the universe we live in when God can easily be inserted
where all the knowledge gaps are? Sarah Palin and her ilk are also quick to
reject the overwhelming scientific evidence of global warming and its
consequences; after all, we're living in the end times, right?
This contempt for science threatens both our country's economic future and
the world that our children will inherit from us.
Rayilyn Brown
Director AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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