more on NPR: Chris Mooney, 'The Republican War On Science'

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jock Gill <jg45 () mac com>
Date: November 13, 2005 10:49:40 AM EST
To: Farber Dave <dave () farber net>
Cc: Jock Gill <jg45 () mac com>
Subject: Fwd: [Dewayne-Net] NPR: Chris Mooney, 'The Republican War On  
Science'

Below is my note on Dewayne's post.  For IP if you wish.  -- Jock

Jock Gill
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> From: Jock Gill <jg45 () mac com>
> Date: November 13, 2005 10:42:48 AM EST
> To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> Cc: Jock Gill <jg45 () mac com>
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] NPR: Chris Mooney, 'The Republican War  
> On Science'
>
> Dewayne,
>
> After watching Connections [James Burke], Pandora's Box and The  
> power of Nightmares [both by Curtis Adams for the BBC], as well as  
> McNamara [Errol Morris], I have this strange feeling that what we  
> are experiencing is a deep and angry backlash at the failures and  
> bill of goods sold to us by techno utopians who had the unbridled  
> hubris to think they could be Masters of the Universe.  It does not  
> matter if they worked at Gosplan in the USSR or for RAND in the  
> USA.  Fundamentally they were all techno utopians who got it wrong  
> at great cost.
>
> As Irving Krystoll says in Power of Nightmares, the Liberals have  
> no explanation as to why President Johnson and RAND did not produce  
> a Great Society and End Poverty.  They also have no apologies for  
> their failures.
>
> Until the Liberals and Democrats can first acknowledge these  
> failures and apologize for them, the Right will run amok with its  
> anti-science.  What we need is some fresh thinking that is able to  
> embrace science and technology with humility, respect for the  
> impossibility of perfect knowledge, and an honest acceptance of the  
> existence of mystery.  It is past time to move beyond the  
> approaches of FDR's years and the far right's Cold War use of FEAR  
> as an organizing principal.  We will only succeed if we stop  
> looking in the rear view mirror and tackle the future head on.  FDR  
> is dead.  The Cold War is over.  Long live a new and confident  
> Liberalism -- now to invent it.
>
> Jock
>
>
>
> Jock Gill
> The Power of Wireless
> Cooperative gain from collective behaviors at the edges
> (781) 396-0492
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Dewayne Hendricks wrote:
>
> > Talk of the Nation (Science Friday), November 11, 2005 · Chris  
> > Mooney about what he calls "the Republican War on Science." From  
> > evolution to climate change to stem cell research, he says  
> > politicians are mishandling science in pursuit of a larger  
> > political agenda.
> >
> > Guest:
> >
> > Chris Mooney, author, The Republican War on Science; Washington  
> > correspondent, Seed Magazine
> >
> > Audio (RealAudio) can be found at: <http://www.npr.org/templates/ 
> > story/story.php?storyId=5008303&ft=1&f=5>
> > Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>


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