Post by Seven on Apr 26, 2009 11:45:32 GMT -5
# Mwalimu Daudi Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Embryonic stem cell research has more to do with politics than it does with science. We live in an age when most everything - culture, history, sociology, psychology, technology, entertainment, music - is influenced by politics. In some cases, that influence is both one-sided and near absolute.
A musician (for example) may write a few bars of mediocre tune and someone somewhere will applaud. But take that same music and infuse it with a lefty political message (John Cougar Mellencamp for example) and the reaction is much more positive, at least from the wealthy chattering classes that imagine themselves as the vanguards of society. Why do you think that the liberal arts departments on college campuses are little more that Democrat Party support groups? Does Hollywood churn out lousy movies every year because the leftist themes in most of them are a smash hit at the box office?
The so-called hard sciences (such as medicine, physics, mathematics, etc.) will be the last to succumb, since the chattering classes are woefully ignorant in these areas. But I predict that they eventually will. Government funding of research and universities has made this all but inevitable. Sooner or later the government will demand obedience, with punishment (in the form of withheld funding) for apostates.
I was doing research for my paper on media bias. What I found is conformation that people sicken me. There is so much wrong with the above statement, yet everyone was applauding this guy for his "intellectual" comments. I don't need to be in a "hard science" to look at this to be able to tell its pure biased idiocy trying to sound sophisticated.
*shakes head sadly*
One of these days, I really am going to wind up a misanthropist instead of just joking about it.
