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

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: November 13, 2005 4:32:06 PM EST
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Subject: Re: [IP] more on NPR: Chris Mooney, 'The Republican War On  
Science'

Jock Gill wrote:
> > 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....

My take is perhaps the opposite of Gill's. What I see in the current  
opposition to science and technology is the response of people  
frightened by what the future may bring: global warming, nuclear  
explosions, toxic chemicals, pandemic influenza, etc. When the  
message scares you, you shoot (or at least hobble) the messenger!

Harold L. Burstyn, Attorney-at-Law and Registered Patent Attorney,  
216 Bradford Parkway, Syracuse NY 13224-1767, tel. (315) 445-0620;  
Fax (509) 479-4103; Adjunct Professor, L. C. Smith College of  
Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, CST 4-104,  
Syracuse NY 13244-4100, tel. (315)443-4375, fax (315) 443-2583
mailto:burstynh at iname.com http://www.burstyn.net

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