Science is what "they" say it is, period. No discussion, decision final, it is all about feelings and algorically correct.
This comes from a real school lots of people have heard of and from somebody who is really smart, too.
Sample: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out with a report last week that hopefully put to rest any of the unexplainable hope that some in this country had about our role (as humans) in contributing to the now noticeable trends in Global Warming. Shhhhh, it is below zero here again this morning and I am still not able to plant the palm tree I am saving for the warmup. I can't decide whether this is from a student in the third grade or his/her teacher. It all blends in, showing my deficit in caffeine this morning.
The Terry Schiavo and stem cell controversies are the final symbols of Bush’s disdain for the academic sciences. In examining these recent debates, a strange definition of life has risen from Washington. Our President is a stern believer in the “culture of life” (meaning that he does not support the right of a woman to control her own reproductive system, yet executions and destructive wars are completely fine), and as such he tried his best to circumvent the constitution in 2005 to prevent a person whose brain had been reduced capacity of a sponge to finally be at peace. This obsession with the protection of every living cell has also extended itself into the stem-cell issue. Bush has put a hold to the development of research on new stem-cell lines, meaning that our scientists are being hampered by inadequate materials in the battle against Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, and who knows how many more diseases.
Bush administration must embrace science
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The hospital did not respond to requests for comment for this story. But doctors say no one has perfected a method of determining mental age and attaching it to a specific treatment plan. The late psychometrics pioneer Louis Leon Thurstone said, "The mental age concept is a failure in that it leads to ambiguities and inconsistencies."
The results of such imprecision were brought to bear when the late Terri Schiavo's parents refused to accept that she was in a persistent vegetative state, a diagnosis that, according to University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan, means the patient has no mental age.
Yet patients and their families crave a diagnosis, and when it comes to mental ability, brain age provides a number that's easy to relate to.
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