Comments on: More on the fate of science under Bush (and McCain?…) http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/more-on-the-fate-of-science-under-bush-and-mccain/ science and the public square -- by thomas levenson Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:32:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: uspace http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/more-on-the-fate-of-science-under-bush-and-mccain/#comment-607 uspace Sat, 10 May 2008 05:36:46 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-607 We must beef up our sciences big time. We should have colonies on the moon by now. And can't anybody talk some sense into McCain about how temperatures rise first, and THEN carbon-dioxide levels rise. Carbon-dioxide doesn't cause warming, warming causes CO2 levels to rise. . absurd thought - God of the Universe says humans' breath is poison just one child hurts the world worse than a jet engine . absurd thought - God of the Universe says keep people all worked up about global warming despite inconvenient facts . <a href="http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-4123082535546754758" rel="nofollow">The Great Global Warming Scam Movie</a> <a href="http://lulu.com/uspace" rel="nofollow">USpace</a> :) . We must beef up our sciences big time. We should have colonies on the moon by now. And can’t anybody talk some sense into McCain about how temperatures rise first, and THEN carbon-dioxide levels rise. Carbon-dioxide doesn’t cause warming, warming causes CO2 levels to rise.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
humans’ breath is poison

just one child hurts the world
worse than a jet engine

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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
keep people all worked up

about global warming
despite inconvenient facts

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The Great Global Warming Scam Movie

USpace

:)
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]]> By: Michelle S http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/more-on-the-fate-of-science-under-bush-and-mccain/#comment-606 Michelle S Sat, 10 May 2008 04:51:27 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-606 JayCee raises a valid point. A lot of the money's still there; you just can't get it unless you're willing to work on what we (myself and the group of students who worked on Army research in grad school) called baby-killer grants. It's all homeland security and defense; there's almost no money anywhere else. Even less reassuring is my own personal experience on said baby-killer grant, when we told an Army research rep that to complete their project to their specs, light would have to go faster than, well, the speed of light. His response: "Oh, do you need more money?" I have not done military research since, and will never do it again. I'm disgusted enough that it paid for one of my graduate degrees. JayCee raises a valid point. A lot of the money’s still there; you just can’t get it unless you’re willing to work on what we (myself and the group of students who worked on Army research in grad school) called baby-killer grants. It’s all homeland security and defense; there’s almost no money anywhere else.

Even less reassuring is my own personal experience on said baby-killer grant, when we told an Army research rep that to complete their project to their specs, light would have to go faster than, well, the speed of light. His response: “Oh, do you need more money?”

I have not done military research since, and will never do it again. I’m disgusted enough that it paid for one of my graduate degrees.

]]> By: JayCee http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/more-on-the-fate-of-science-under-bush-and-mccain/#comment-602 JayCee Fri, 09 May 2008 17:46:43 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-602 I suspect that not all science is being shortchanged. My son works in a lab experimenting with technology that has both homeland security and healthcare applications. Guess which is being generously funded? It doesn't hurt that the funding is to a university in a less populated red state with rural Senators that need kowtowed to. I suspect that not all science is being shortchanged. My son works in a lab experimenting with technology that has both homeland security and healthcare applications. Guess which is being generously funded? It doesn’t hurt that the funding is to a university in a less populated red state with rural Senators that need kowtowed to.

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