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"You Should Just Give In And Realize That We Is Dumb"

Science is a mystery to man, isn't it Frylock?

Remember not to getcher mind fixated on the basis of modern geology, paleontology, zoology, and 15 other ologies I can't name off the top of my head, because it tends to angry up the blood, especially in Kansas:

"They [evolutionists] are offering an answer that may be in conflict with religious views," Harris said in opening the debate. "Part of our overall goal is to remove the bias against religion that is currently in schools. This is a scientific controversy that has powerful religious implications."

These proceedings before the Kansas Board of Education reveal a wonderful approach to elementary education, one that harkens back to the grand tradition of the heliocentric vs. geocentric view of the solar system ("Look, Galileo, stop saying 'and yet it moves!' This shows a bias against established Catholic teaching! In any event, you'll have plenty of time to think of the powerful religious implications during your lifetime house imprisonment.")

Of course, I think all religious beliefs should be respected; this would include a three-week course on the use of prayer to cure diseases (courtesy of Christian Scientists) and disclaimers on psychology textbooks that warn students that modern psychoanalysis reduces body Thetans (courtesy of the Church of Scientology; the sticker should definitely have a picture of a smiling Tom Cruise giving the "thumbs up").

This, of course, has been the general scheme of things since the ascent of the Moral Majority (motto: "We fuck the facts where they live!") about 25 years ago. and you can find no better example than the federal government's current war on observable, reproducable, empirical data. Starting with a God-placating ban on gay sperm:

"Under these [proposed FDA] rules, a heterosexual man who had unprotected sex with HIV-positive prostitutes would be OK as a donor one year later, but a gay man in a monogamous, safe-sex relationship is not OK unless he's been celibate for five years," said Leland Traiman, director of a clinic in Alameda, California, that seeks gay sperm donors.

And this:

A fact sheet on the CDC website that included information on proper condom use, the effectiveness of different types of condoms, and studies showing that condom education does not promote sexual activity was replaced in October 2002 with a document that emphasizes condom failure rates and the effectiveness of abstinence.

And this:

According to the internal EPA memo, White House officials demanded so many qualifying words [in the report on climate change and human activity] such as “potentially” and “may” that the result would have been to insert “uncertainty...where there is essentially none.”

And this:

In a case the New York Times labeled “an egregious distortion of the evidence,” information suggesting a link between abortion and breast cancer was posted on the National Cancer Institute website despite objections from Centers for Disease Control staff, who noted that substantial scientific study has long refuted the connection.

With more examples here. So I guess we shouldn't be surprised... although, to be fair, the Administration does occasionally shit on the scientific method for purely monetary reasons, and not just to appease an angry Sky Fairy who wants his creation-props.

Posted by Norbizness at May 6, 2005 12:21 AM