Bill Freeza pushes some interesting topical buttons in this essay bemoaning the new junk science invading the White House.
Vaccination paranoia, global warming and the old "population bomb" are now among the drivers of our national agenda, endangering lives, undermining what's left of the economy and the environment and, well, hinting at the dawn of a truly Orwellian world.
Out with the old embarrassing anti-science baggage and in with the new. Read it and weep.
Regardless of your tribal affiliations, were you cautiously optimistic when our new president promised to "restore science to its rightful place" in the formulation of public policy? Were you embarrassed by the prior occupant's politicization of issues that should have been decided on a more scientific basis? Did you assume that Barack Obama would surround himself with apolitical science advisors unencumbered by embarrassing anti-science baggage and free of culture-war axes to grind?Yes, yes and yes. It was one of the few silver linings I anticipated would come out of the thundercloud of last year's election. Oh well.
Vaccination paranoia, global warming and the old "population bomb" are now among the drivers of our national agenda, endangering lives, undermining what's left of the economy and the environment and, well, hinting at the dawn of a truly Orwellian world.
Out with the old embarrassing anti-science baggage and in with the new. Read it and weep.
