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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Some ideas are brain boggling
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It's not only scientific ideas. If someone had told me 20 years ago that I would live to see a black man in the White House, my response: "Get the [deleted] outa here."
Was actually listening to the radio in my car today ... on CBC, not a bad station, they were interviewing a guy who believes that what he calls "curiosity driven research" is under attack, particularly from the political right, and particularly in the US. Creating a climate of anti-intellectualism benefits big business, particularly when it involves "climate change denial." Millions of Americans are prepared to believe in GOD, creationism, zombies, aliens a la Hollywood, sasquatches, and, yes Dotti, Loch Ness Monsters. These same folks, most of them living south of the Mason-Dixon Line and other Bible Belt locations dismiss serious climate research and warnings from the IPCC as "a load of balls."
I believe it was Shakespeare's Caesar who said of Cassius: "he thinks too much; such men are dangerous." ... or something like that. Maybe we are becoming a bit like extreme Islamists, whose greatest fear is a girl with a book.