[IP] more on NPR: Chris Mooney, 'The Republican War On Science'
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From: Jock Gill <jg45@xxxxxxx>
Date: November 13, 2005 10:49:40 AM EST
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Subject: Fwd: [Dewayne-Net] NPR: Chris Mooney, 'The Republican War On
Science'
Below is my note on Dewayne's post. For IP if you wish. -- Jock
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From: Jock Gill <jg45@xxxxxxx>
Date: November 13, 2005 10:42:48 AM EST
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Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] NPR: Chris Mooney, 'The Republican War
On Science'
Dewayne,
After watching Connections [James Burke], Pandora's Box and The
power of Nightmares [both by Curtis Adams for the BBC], as well as
McNamara [Errol Morris], I have this strange feeling that what we
are experiencing is a deep and angry backlash at the failures and
bill of goods sold to us by techno utopians who had the unbridled
hubris to think they could be Masters of the Universe. It does not
matter if they worked at Gosplan in the USSR or for RAND in the
USA. Fundamentally they were all techno utopians who got it wrong
at great cost.
As Irving Krystoll says in Power of Nightmares, the Liberals have
no explanation as to why President Johnson and RAND did not produce
a Great Society and End Poverty. They also have no apologies for
their failures.
Until the Liberals and Democrats can first acknowledge these
failures and apologize for them, the Right will run amok with its
anti-science. What we need is some fresh thinking that is able to
embrace science and technology with humility, respect for the
impossibility of perfect knowledge, and an honest acceptance of the
existence of mystery. It is past time to move beyond the
approaches of FDR's years and the far right's Cold War use of FEAR
as an organizing principal. We will only succeed if we stop
looking in the rear view mirror and tackle the future head on. FDR
is dead. The Cold War is over. Long live a new and confident
Liberalism -- now to invent it.
Jock
Jock Gill
The Power of Wireless
Cooperative gain from collective behaviors at the edges
(781) 396-0492
On Nov 13, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Dewayne Hendricks wrote:
Talk of the Nation (Science Friday), November 11, 2005 · Chris
Mooney about what he calls "the Republican War on Science." From
evolution to climate change to stem cell research, he says
politicians are mishandling science in pursuit of a larger
political agenda.
Guest:
Chris Mooney, author, The Republican War on Science; Washington
correspondent, Seed Magazine
Audio (RealAudio) can be found at: <http://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=5008303&ft=1&f=5>
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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