Comments on: Crooked Timber Mooney Seminar

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:19:51 +0000

student, it will appear tomorrow, I promise. And it will be less helpful than you had hoped.

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:25:55 +0000

I still don’t want to think that the current administration is so craven and dishonest as to blatantly distort the scientific process for political ends.

That is deliciously droll – and naive. Look up One True Church high management refusing to look through Galileo’s telescope at four moons of Jupiter not revolving about the Earth. Remember Giordano Bruno when next you are subject to warrantless search and seizure by Homeland Severity at an airport. El Ultimo Presidente Boosh is Borne Again.

There isn’t a plant or animal on any US farm that has not been gene-gineered to perform. Only god can demand that greenhouses are holy and 96-well plates are damned. Do you think having a Project Head Start annual budget 1/3 larger than that of the NSF is a clever thing to do? Or a $20 billion/year War on Drugs? Or dumping $30 billion into New Orleans to have it vanish without a burp? Or dumping $800 billion into a Middle East compote of Vietnam + Northern Ireland?

The H*Y*D*R*O*G*E*N* economy, gasohol, biodiesel, tar sands… does thermodynamics have a vote in Bush the Lesser’s politics?

By: student

student — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:25:34 +0000

Sean, when oh when are you going to write that how-to-choose-a-graduate-school thing?

By: wolfgang

wolfgang — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:43:31 +0000

> I’m sure that there are respectable pro-science Republicans who could have been brought in to critique the book.

I would suggest Lubos M.

By: rien

rien — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:58:51 +0000

I had the same problem with the book, I haven’t even finished it yet. Too depressing and I have to think about my blood pressure too. But it is interesting to read it in small pieces. I have read a lot about the book though.