Seriously, who needs science?

Seriously, who needs science? It's so old skool. This is the new millennium for crying out loud. Science is dead! Long live ideology!

/sarcasm

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger

In further news, the US House of Representatives has continued their plans to bring about the Apocalypse, passing a bill (on almost exactly party lines) to effectively ban scientists from being on the EPA's scientific advisory board. Under these new rules, anyone who has done research on anything which the board studies is considered to have a conflict of interest, and therefore cannot sit on the board. Fortunately, simply having a financial stake in the matters which the board studies does not constitute a conflict of interest, so the scientific advisory board continues to be open to corporate public affairs officers, demented preachers, or roving madmen off the street.

The bill now proceeds to the Senate, where it has been referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. This is the committee chaired by Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma, author of The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future and other light classics, in which he tells us that because of the existence of God, the "arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is... outrageous." So in all, it's a good year for public affairs officers, demented preachers, and roving madmen off the street in all aspects of our government, and I forecast excellent career opportunities for each of these categories going forward. 

h/t Peter da Silva for the link.
http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa

Comments

Chylene Ramsey said…
Excuse me, folks, I hate to sound redundant: WHY ARE YOU PUTTING UP WITH THESE FOOLS?? They are NOT the government!
Stacy Sanchez said…
Told you the world was flat. Space cameras just film wrong.
S rodden said…
Well science would be more valuable if scientists wouldn't run there hypothesis through there ideology filter trying to make something fit.

Oh and don't forget the money trail you know research cash for green things and global warming, er climate change oops I mean climate disruption etc.

But hey look at the bright side its jobs for scientists at least right ?
Jason ON said…
S rodden, I don't think you understand science. Scientists don't run their research through "ideology filters." At least not the good scientist who are published. Sure, the occasional quak comes along and claims the Ark existed, The Flintstones were a documentary or Jesus was real, but a vast majority of scientists rely on the scientific method to validate or invalidate their hypothesis.
S rodden said…
Jason ON oh your right I didn't mean every scientist does that however in today's culture professionals are more polarized leaning left or right more than ever before. Sadly there is an obvious absence of ethical behavior on either side of the political spectrum. Jmo
Jason ON said…
I disagree. I believe most scientists go where the science leads regardless of ideology. What you did have right was the influence of money in research.

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