Friday, January 16, 2004
Predict The Outcome of any Hole!
From a classified ad which appeared in the Okfuskee County News, Oklahoma, circa 1926.
There ya have it. The Bush administration's entire scientific peer review process (and energy policy too), summed up in twenty six words. And not none of them big funny elitist Volvo driving liberal "junk science" college professor type words neither.
Think I'm kidding? Steve Bates at The Yellow Doggerel Democrat has a scary post up concerning the Bush Errands latest "pig in a poke" policy initiative. Specifically, their attemps to turn the scientific review process into something resembling The Wonders of the Invisible World.
Go read what Steve has written. It's important. It should be in the newspaper. Like, someone should send David Brooks off to paddle a leaky canoe down the Neosho and assign Steve's article to the Brooks timeslot instead.
By the way: The Neosho is a Jewish river that flows from Council Grove Kansas southeast into eastern Oklahoma near Narcissa where it empties into a great winding mystery, a fabulous serpentine inland waterway teeming with golden fishes and talking fossils and nightmarish whirlpools of damned liberals. Graceful ships of stone glide by effortlessly and miraculous healing currents of liquid fire flow unseen past Neodesha - a casual Semantic port town - located on the opposite banks of the Lost City. Knowledgeable premillennialist tour guides appointed by an expert team of seraphim archeologists provide "facts" and answer any questions you may have with respect to natural law and the scientific creation designs of the region's bountiful scenic wonders.
Entertainment is provided nightly and the gift shop is open each day except Sunday. Unless you're a Seventh Day Adventist, in which case the gift shop is also closed on Saturday. The entire rolling pageant eventually, one way or another, empties itself into the shimmering Purple Bay of Intransigent Belief and ultimately the Eternal Ocean of Incomprehensible Nonsense. Just take my word for it. You can learn all about it from the National Park Service. See: The Grand Canyon...Science and Faith and ...Promote Religion, Says Watchdog Group
Ok, where was I? Oh yeah. Seriously now, go read Steve Bates's article titled Replacing Science with Politics: Peer Review Endangered
Excerpt:
Continue reading Replacing Science with Politics
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I can locate oil, gas or salt water - in fact can honestly predict the outcome of any hole before it is drilled. God being with me.
~ F.M. Casey, Route 2, Okemah.
There ya have it. The Bush administration's entire scientific peer review process (and energy policy too), summed up in twenty six words. And not none of them big funny elitist Volvo driving liberal "junk science" college professor type words neither.
Think I'm kidding? Steve Bates at The Yellow Doggerel Democrat has a scary post up concerning the Bush Errands latest "pig in a poke" policy initiative. Specifically, their attemps to turn the scientific review process into something resembling The Wonders of the Invisible World.
Go read what Steve has written. It's important. It should be in the newspaper. Like, someone should send David Brooks off to paddle a leaky canoe down the Neosho and assign Steve's article to the Brooks timeslot instead.
By the way: The Neosho is a Jewish river that flows from Council Grove Kansas southeast into eastern Oklahoma near Narcissa where it empties into a great winding mystery, a fabulous serpentine inland waterway teeming with golden fishes and talking fossils and nightmarish whirlpools of damned liberals. Graceful ships of stone glide by effortlessly and miraculous healing currents of liquid fire flow unseen past Neodesha - a casual Semantic port town - located on the opposite banks of the Lost City. Knowledgeable premillennialist tour guides appointed by an expert team of seraphim archeologists provide "facts" and answer any questions you may have with respect to natural law and the scientific creation designs of the region's bountiful scenic wonders.
Entertainment is provided nightly and the gift shop is open each day except Sunday. Unless you're a Seventh Day Adventist, in which case the gift shop is also closed on Saturday. The entire rolling pageant eventually, one way or another, empties itself into the shimmering Purple Bay of Intransigent Belief and ultimately the Eternal Ocean of Incomprehensible Nonsense. Just take my word for it. You can learn all about it from the National Park Service. See: The Grand Canyon...Science and Faith and ...Promote Religion, Says Watchdog Group
Ok, where was I? Oh yeah. Seriously now, go read Steve Bates's article titled Replacing Science with Politics: Peer Review Endangered
Excerpt:
Having limited blogging time enforces a new discipline on me: deciding exactly which one of the dozens of frightening things I find in the course of an evening's surfing is most worth posting about. This one meets the criterion, packed full and running over...
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The administration says that policy should be based on scientific truths so well-established as to be beyond question. But there is no scientific truth beyond question; that is the very nature of science. This is not about basing policy on better science; this is about interfering with the decision of what constitutes good science... to the financial advantage of various industries that contribute to Bush's campaign, and to the political advantage of the Bush administration as they throw a bone to their religious "conservative" (read: radical fundamentalist) supporters.
Continue reading Replacing Science with Politics
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