The inevitable attack on science

From:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/17/the-inevitable-attack-on-science/

By: Steve on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 at 5:20 PM - PDT

In 1999, as the nation was still coming to grips with the tragedy at Columbine High School, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) took to the floor to identify what he saw as the real culprit: science classes. “Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized [sic] out of some primordial soup,” DeLay said. Young people learn modern biology, DeLay said, which in turn makes them feel insignificant, which in turn leads to violence.

This was, of course, one of the more loathsome comments made by one of Congress's more despicable people, but after yesterday’s shootings at Virginia Tech, it was only a matter of time before someone who shares DeLay’s worldview stepped up to assess yesterday’s tragedy the same way.

Enter Ken Ham, a leading creationist activist, who leads an outfit called Answers in Genesis.

“We live in an era when public high schools and colleges have all but banned God from science classes. In these classrooms, students are taught that the whole universe, including plants and animals — and humans — arose by natural processes. Naturalism (in essence, atheism) has become the religion of the day and has become the foundation of the education system (and Western culture as a whole). The more such a philosophy permeates the culture, the more we would expect to see a sense of purposelessness and hopelessness that pervades people’s thinking. In fact, the more a culture allows the killing of the unborn, the more we will see people treating life in general as ‘cheap.’”

Ham, it’s worth noting, wrote this yesterday. He couldn’t even wait 24 hours before connecting the massacre and biology classes.

The AngryWoofDog Writes: Yes, it's such a shame that this is the government that lifted the assault rifle ban yet still wants to moralise abortion. Amerika's priorities get more fucked up every fucking day.

Requiem

When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

"It is done."

People did not like it here.

-K.Vonnegut (RIP,M8)

FDA Regulators Using Legal Trickery to Kill Alternative Procedures and Products

The FDA is using legal maneuvering to end your access to natural health products (like vitamins, minerals and herbs) and natural health therapies of all sorts. Again. This time, their ploy is to declare the therapies are "Medicine" so any non-physician who uses them will be practicing medicine without a license. Since these practices are "Medicine", any products used would be untested drugs and therefore forbidden.

Your Comments are Vitally Important

Public, professional and industry comments are being accepted on the FDA proposal to "capture" alternative procedures and products as "medicine" and then make them illegal. The history of these repressive attacks by the FDA makes it clear that public outcry, IN HUGE NUMBERS, is the only effective tool that natural health supporters have to change this disastrous outcome. Comments will be accepted until April 30. By contacting everyone you can reach to ask for their participation in this comment campaign, we can kill this assault on personal health freedom.

Please send the link (http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc) to this page to everyone you can reach with a brief explanation of the issues. Urge everyone in your personal and professional circles of influence to protect their health freedom -- their personal right to make their own health choices.

It is important to take a moment to email the manufacturers of the health care products you take an ask them to alert their suppliers and customer base to protect their businesses. Your natural health care providers need to alert their patients and colleagues, too.

Thanks for your activism!

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

This is the kind of computer I was talking about in my previous post. I think it wants to eat my soul.

Backup Chuck

So, this has been the 2 weeks of hardware failures. *Sigh* Makes me really want to dedicate my life to computers forever..... No, not really. I'm just one cup short of a whole pot today. And it seems like all of the hardware around me is dying. Well, not all of it. Just 2 of it. You finger it out.

Our show went well Saturday night, playing at a nice brewpub. Our sound was off though..... It's a wonky area where we had to set up and we had to wait for paying customers to get up and leave. Other than a really persnicky contract, that we followed to the letter, things were smooth. I enjoyed playing, although my body was completely exhausted yesterday.

Makes me really feel for those folks on the road- who don't get the chance to sleep in their own bed and must play night after night, with no spooning/cuddling of their favourite human while being a slug on a couch (or a Palladin in Hillsbrad).

Yesh, just a note of blithey. Blimey. Something. I needwant anudder cup o' javalifejumpjuice.

Ciao.