I need specifics, not vague accusations. Like I said the UCS complained and there was a response. Do you want to debate the response? Pick a line item out of 17 and let's do it. To say NASA and attorney general means nothing. Give me details.
On 8/8/07, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/8/07, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And most regrettably takes the focus off of your otherwise excellent > > points. > > > > Excellent points? > > > Ok, POINT: Political hacks should keep their hands OFF of scientists, who > deal in facts, not poll numbers. > > He accused the White House Science advisor, Dr. John Marburger, of > > righting a right wing opinion piece or McCarthyite/Bircher fantasy. At > > the same time he used a science-fiction/fantasy author to prove his > > point. This is far from an excellent point. > > > I don't know or care about that accusation. > > Out of thousands of presidential appointees, they are all right-wing > > fundamentalists except for the five or ten that speak out against the > > administration. Somehow they are the only believable ones. Do you see > > the bias there? > > > Several prominent scientists have spoken out about interference from the > administration that they felt compromised their work as legitimate > scientists. I choose to believe them, because they are reputable and have no > real cause for making up lies. > > The attorney general sounds like nothing more than a disgruntled > > worker upset that every word he said wasn't worshiped by the > > administration. > > > Who and what is this in reference too? I'm talking about surgeon generals > and NASA scientists..... > > The other item he mentions doesn't have a link and google turned up > > nothing. Everything else we discussed was presented by the Union of > > Concerned Scientists, a known left-wing group. It's all been debunked > > so let's talk about those items. > > > His main point is still valid, and you can't object to that reasonably. > > Global warming as government policy? Bad idea to mix politics with science. > > They insisted on us joining Kyote and it's now falling apart. > > > Global warming is a scientific topic. If the government chooses to accept or > reject what science knows to be true, that is their own political decision. > > That being said, science and politics always fight and to paint this > > as a Bush admin only issue is just wrong. > > > I don't give a shit whether this administration invented the practice of > stifling science in the name of politics....it's still wrong and it still > sucks!!! What the hell kind of argument is this??? Someone else did it > first, so it's OK? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239695 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
