] this piece by Richard Florida in the
] Washington Monthly, which explains how the Bush
] administration's anti-scientism (among other things)
] threatens our economic health.

very interesting. goto http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/index.cfm to read about the scientist's movement to stop the distortion of science by the bush admin....

[ there was a brief discussion of this as pertains to stem cell research the other day on our blog... aside from being deadly to the millions of current and future patients that stem cell therapy could help, the US is gonna miss out on a lot of the economic windfall that these therapies will generate, all out of a misguided, (IMO) hyper-religious, ideological stance.

It's clearly not limited to stem cells... -k]

TAPPED: Conservative Lysenkoism, Continued.