Comments on: Book Review: The Republican War On Science http://allthebestbits.net/book-review-the-republican-war-on-science/ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:43:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: alveldahttp://allthebestbits.net/book-review-the-republican-war-on-science/comment-page-1/#comment-22 alvelda Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://50.18.189.95/?p=85#comment-22 Given that today's average voter makes their electoral decisions based largely on sound bites, we are all now victims of spin in bite-sized nuggets.<br /><br />Until we can induce people to really educate themselves around what are becoming increasingly technical issues, it is too easy to mislead the population with a couple of fictional sentences. <br /><br />So unless we elect an informed and properly educated adminstration to office, we are screwing ourselves in the long run. Given that today’s average voter makes their electoral decisions based largely on sound bites, we are all now victims of spin in bite-sized nuggets.

Until we can induce people to really educate themselves around what are becoming increasingly technical issues, it is too easy to mislead the population with a couple of fictional sentences.

So unless we elect an informed and properly educated adminstration to office, we are screwing ourselves in the long run.

]]> By: Davidhttp://allthebestbits.net/book-review-the-republican-war-on-science/comment-page-1/#comment-19 David Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:12:00 +0000 http://50.18.189.95/?p=85#comment-19 good post and on a topic that's still not getting the attention it deserves relative to its potential for rendering catastrophic outcomes. good post and on a topic that’s still not getting the attention it deserves relative to its potential for rendering catastrophic outcomes.

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