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From: "Jim Huston" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] science education
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:07:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <46547DCC.60503@scs.uiuc.edu>


As long as we're off-topic, I recommend the article "How Did Humans First
Alter global Climate?" by William F. Ruddiman, in the March 2005 issue of
Scientific American. Hard data, impeccable credentials, and strong
correlation w/ observations made in other fields. In short, several lines
of evidence pointing to the same conclusions, without the bias introduced by
predictive computer models.

- Jim


>From: Doug McDonald <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [DNA] science education
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:45:48 -0500
>
>Diana Gale Matthiesen wrote:
> > We're drifting off topic, so should stop. But look at the attitude
>toward
> > science in Washington and extrapolate... Things have not been getting
>better;
> > they've been getting worse.
> >
>
>Yes, it is off topic, but so what.
>
>Really good science education is anathema to any red blooded
>politician, of whatever ilk, but even more so to those
>of the far left or right. That is because it encourages thought, something
>which they distrust and even more fear. The current "global
>warming" hysteria is a classic case where those who are pushing
>"man made global warming" as a vehicle for their political goals
>reaaly don't want people who understand science, least of all the
>actual science involved.
>
>Doug McDonald
>
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