Re: science stuff: Barack vs. Bush
- From: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins)
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:31:12 +1000
chris thompson <chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 6, 9:11 pm, "Steven L." <sdlit...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
"Earle Jones" <earle.jo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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article <rTx_k.13170$Ws1.2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmene...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"max maypo" <max.ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message*
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[snip]
if you have the patience to wade through them, you'll find several"moronic", "rabid", "seething", "unbridled greed", "vicious".
insightful comments made in response (and some moronic dreck too...
but hey, Bush did win the majority of the votes in 2004...and I
suspect that a large number of his most rabid supporters are still
alive, still seething, and still frightened to death by the spectre
of wide open access to knowledge and data that would slam the door
on their unbridled greed and vicious prejudices)
Hmmmm.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm going to guess that you are a
Democrat. Right?
I am now!
Actually, me too. I voted for Obama with enthusiasm, though
ideologically I'm pretty much a McCain Republican.
I've finally gotten around to wading through the responses to the
Judson blog. So far I have encountered more "moronic', "rabid", and
"vicious" response in support of Judson than opposed, but that is
mostly due to the fact that very few of the particularly moronic
right-wingers read the New York Times. But there was one mildly
anti-Judson response that I find worthy of comment:
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The Left thinks that stem cell research is the whole of "science".
The Right wants to suppress evolution teaching and substitute
"creationism" or "intelligent design". The Left is no more objective
than the Right when it comes to "independent thinking". One need
only examine the debunking and debasement of Western intellectual
history (Dead White European Men) for the damage the Left has
done to our universities. Alan Bloom ("The Closing of the American
Mind") wrote about the destruction of Western philosophy as a
legitimate subject of study on university campuses in the 1990s.
Even Harvard, the bastion of Ivy League liberalism, fired its
president who cautiously suggested that genetic differences may
account for cognitive differences between men and women.
One of the most egregious examples on the Left is the wholesale
rewriting of world history and anthropology by so-called "Afrocentric"
historians. They have written what amounts to an alternate history
timeline, in which all the great philosophical advances were made in
Africa, and only "stolen"
by the Greeks and Romans.
Fascinating. You wouldn't have a cite handy would you?
Check out the Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrocentrism
--
John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, University of Sydney
scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre
.
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