Yet Another Warning From the Scientific Community

By John Ballard

If you don't read anything else today, read this...

Most scientists, on achieving high office, keep their public remarks to the bland and reassuring. Last week Nina Fedoroff, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), broke ranks in a spectacular manner.

She confessed that she was now "scared to death" by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the US and the rest of the western world.

"We are sliding back into a dark era," she said. "And there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms."

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"Those of us who grew up in the sixties, when we put men on the Moon, now have to watch as every Republican candidate for this year's presidential election denies the science behind climate change and evolution. That is a staggering state of affairs and it is very worrying," said Professor Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California, San Diego.

Comments

[hidflect]

It's funny. That site Balloon Juice... Most of his posts are like, "I got nothing.." (literally!) and then he gets 260 responses. And you get zero. I don't understand it. He's getting way too pompous to justify the time visiting his site. Anyway. Good post...

[John Ballard]

Thanks. It's a matter of taste.
Think of it as the difference between Chateau d'Yquem and Two Buck Chuck.