Re: [Pen-l] Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, part 2

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

raghu wrote:
> Actually far from repudiating science, the Bush years provide an
> excellent example of Tyranny of Science at work.
>
> It is under Bush that we saw such monstrosities as the high-tech
> military doctrine of Rumsfeld, creationism, test-scores based
> education reform (No Child Left Behind) etc. All of which have
> scientific pretensions and are based on the hubris that logical
> (usually reductionist) reasoning based on hard, cold facts can provide
> simple one-size-fits-all answers to such things as what is the best
> way to run schools, wage war etc.

I have no idea how you can describe "creationism" as science. You might 
as well describe astrology, numerology, pataphysics, astral 
projectionism and coffee enemas as science.
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