12.15.07
Science 2008
Scientists Push Presidential Candidates for Positions on Science
By Sarah Lai Stirland
I think politicians ought to realize that plight of modern science, having seeded culture with a cancerated social philosophy in the form of Darwinism, next to another ideological nexus in economic theory masquerading as science. Finally lurking in the background is the abortion of politics in the form of the ’science of politics’ given to the world by Machiavelli. As to the last point, politicians will of no use at all. In fact, it is hard to see how they could say or do anything intelligent on any question.
Since the world’s smartest can do no better than this, it must be that the social system swings toward the most stupid, the fundamentalists, to leverage scientific stupidity.
A Who’s Who of America’s top scientists are launching a quixotic last-minute effort this week to force presidential candidates to detail the role science would play in their administrations — a question they say is key to the future of the country, if not the world.
“Right now we have a confluence of issues facing candidates: embryonic stem cell research, global warming, science and technology education, biotechnology and energy policy — it’s just becoming an avalanche,” says Lawrence Krauss, a physics professor at Case Western University, and author of the bestselling The Physics of Star Trek. “I think at some level, you have to get some insight into what the candidates know, or what they’re willing to learn.”