Science by non-scientists

[Ted Samsel]

So we are to regress back to a "golden age", because it would fit someone's
agenda?
> 
> BTW I have plenty of students happy to tell me that creationism does
> belong in science class, and believe me this opinion has NOTHING to do
> with feminism...I am sympathetic to them in one sense:  you can't have
> faith and science concurrently yet they are told to and want to have both.

Why not? Ever hear of doublethink? (;-)

Another example: On the Haitian Kwiol radio stations in Miami, there
are programs that undermine the germ theory of disease, announcing that
AIDS is just a fantasy and the audience should ignore public health
practices that should lower the spread of the disease... (could this
be more "Control" by "Them"?)

> 
> Finally, you should know me well enough by now to know that I would never
> be able to "lurk"--  diana

Indeed...

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