{"id":7181,"date":"2006-04-19T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2006-04-19T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T15:13:23","slug":"if-bush-were-serious-about-science-being-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/if-bush-were-serious-about-science-being-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"If Bush were serious about science being ‘cool’…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, [tag]Bush[\/tag] spoke<\/a> at a magnet middle school in Maryland to talk up his “[tag]American Competitiveness Initiative[\/tag],” and he emphasized how important it is for students to think of [tag]science[\/tag] as being “[tag]cool[\/tag].”<\/p>\n

“We saw two [tag]scientists[\/tag] who are here from NASA. These are good, hard-working folks who said, ‘I kind of want to lend my expertise to try to convince a child that science is cool.’<\/p>\n

“You know, sometimes — you might remember those days, when you were in middle school, people say, you know, science isn’t cool. Science is not only cool, it’s really important for the future of this country, and it’s great to have people we call adjunct professors here, to help lend their real-life experiences to stimulate junior high students to the wonders of science.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree with this message; I just wish the messenger knew what he was talking about.<\/p>\n

If the president were serious about showing young people how great science is, how about leading by example? Bush could, for example, stop his administration from muzzling scientists at NASA<\/a>, ignoring scientists at the EPA<\/a>, and punishing scientists<\/a> who stray from the party line at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n

For that matter, if Bush really<\/i> wanted to show kids how great science is, he could reverse course on teaching intelligent-design creationism<\/a> in public school science classes, rejecting all scientific evidence as it relates to global warming<\/a>, dismissing and restricting the scientific breakthroughs promised by stem-cell research<\/a>, and generally give up on using bogus science<\/a> to justify his political agenda.<\/p>\n

That<\/i> would be cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, [tag]Bush[\/tag] spoke at a magnet middle school in Maryland to talk up his “[tag]American Competitiveness Initiative[\/tag],” and he emphasized how important it is for students to think of [tag]science[\/tag] as being “[tag]cool[\/tag].” “We saw two [tag]scientists[\/tag] who are here from NASA. These are good, hard-working folks who said, ‘I kind of want to lend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}