Posted on 02/15/2007 6:28:31 PM PST by dbehsman
In late December 2006, the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform issued an unflattering report on the state of affairs at one of the nation's more cherished institutions.
One day students might study this report – damningly titled "Intolerance and the Politicization of Science at the Smithsonian" – as a turning point in the history of science. For the time being, however, the report and the scandal at the heart of it attract very close to no attention in the media, let alone in the nation's schools.
Says Dr. Richard Sternberg, the Galileo of the Smithsonian scandal, "The press has not wanted to touch [the report]. Things like this aren't supposed to happen."
What did happen to Dr. Sternberg is shocking even by Washington standards. The damage done to his career is real, irreversible and symptomatic of the lengths the science establishment will go to suppress challenges to the most vulnerable of its paradigms, namely Darwinism and its derivatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
100 years from now they will look at us as about as smart as the Papeocracy insisting Gallileo declare the earth as the center of the universe!
Jack Cashill BUMP!
This guy is the best.
You know, that's basically what I told a buddy of mine at work this week. I told him that 500 years from now, people will look back on us and our time as a bunch of barbarians. The bigger joke is that 1000 years from now, those people 500 years from now will be looked down upon.
I find it disturbing that people in general today look back at society 100, 200, 300 or more years ago, and instantly come to the conclusion that those people in the past were mostly primative barbarians. While at the same time people today very quickly forget that the 20th century was the bloodiest century in recorded human history.
I am surprised that this fellow Sternberg hasn't filed a lawsuit.
Also, who is in charge of hiring all those simple scumbags at the stinking Smithsonian?
Kinda makes you wonder why there is this overreaction towards Dr. Sternberg.
Scientists with integrity would have published a paper refuting Meyer's paper ( with SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ) instead of politicizing the issue and hounding this reviewer with threats.
You would've thought that Stalinist Russia no longer exists ( certainly not in the scientific world ). Well, here's proof that something akin to it still does.
Wow. There really ARE two America's.
Yeah, just don't count on John Edwards doing anything about it soon.
We're still living in the steam age. I mean we can split the atom, but what do we do with it after that? Boil water!
Proof of re-incarnation??
Joe Mc C was Gallileo in a previous life.
From The Galileo Affair
"Galileo was intent on ramming Copernicus down the throat of Christendom. The irony is that when he started his campaign, he enjoyed almost universal good will among the Catholic hierarchy. But he managed to alienate almost everybody with his caustic manner and aggressive tactics."
LOL!
That's a good one!
Thank you for the article. Very interesting.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the Holy See had its own agenda to push forward--that they were not the bad guys, Galileo was.
History has already spoken. The Catholic Church then, and now, thought itself above reproach. It was and is not. To go back now and try to say Galileo got it all wrong and it was just a big misunderstanding was just plain silly. I was once a Catholic but put that religion aside for another once I left home. I do not follow dogma and that is all they have to offer.
Back then it was the Catholic Church, today it is Global Warming, Y2K, environmentalism, the sky is falling, Darwinism and other weirdness.
Honestly!
This is the sad truth of science today....
A true scientist questions everything but there are certain theories that are off limits. That is the answer and how dare you question it.
The earth is flat again.
The original paper from Dr. Sternberg: http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177
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