<strong>Written By:</strong> rearguard
<strong>Date:</strong> 2007-04-09 15:05:45
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Its supporters included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University; the novelist H. G. Wells; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; and hundreds of others. Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California.

These efforts had the support of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the National Research Council. It was said that if Jesus were alive, he would have supported this effort.

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Kind of thought it was eugenics.

The similarities between the backing this had and current "crisis de jour" is something to think about.

Everyone bought into it; and not too surprisingly, everyone was wrong.

As for "It was said that if Jesus were alive, he would have supported this effort."

Obviously those who said that never read the Book.


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The two most common things in the universe are apparently Hydrogen and stupidity.

   

The problem is everything is Politicized,these days and that is pretty much why therec are those on this site who do not want the party system beough into check.

You call it Politicized, I call it control by the party system, eliminate political parties and the few lose control. The majority regain their self worth.

Science, education, employment, religion,the governing structure, unions, are all Politicized.

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Good government is not a party government

   

This brings back the time when we were being taken to nazi Germany in a cattle car train, for training, in Dec.1944.

When we arrived at the military complex of Neuhammer, now in Poland, we were examined by SS doctors, with jackboots of all things, for our "aryan" qualities, including by looking at the hairs on the top of our wrists and hands for any "Jewish blood".

In my company there were about 2-3 classified as #1 category aryans, about 4-6 as #2 and the rest of us #3. The lowest acceptable degree.

Ed Deak.

   

Politics is always way behind scientific research. I think this essay is just the reflection of one man’s tunnel vision or belief system. I think it would be more accurate to equate politics to religion when is comes to reactions to scientific endeavors. Politicians are way behind the science on matters of global warming. So that notion in this essay is simply laughable. Where has this guy been for the last 30 years? The suppression of climate change science by politicians and their corporate buddies is so well know that I found this essay quite funny.

Does this writer even recognize that we have a severe environmental problem? What are his solutions or suggestions? Stick to making movies Mr. Crichton. The premise in this essay is quite simply a re-writing of the history of politics and its relationship to global warming. It all amounts to a rather ill informed opinion of one man.

   

"The lowest acceptable degree"

It's a good thing for you that they needed soldiers, otherwise you could have been classified as #4 or whatever classification these idiotic lunatics made up.

   

Here are some real examples of politicized science as opposed to this fantasy.

1) Renewable alcohol from grain crops. (Corn and wheat)
2) The Hydrogen economy
3) The US congress sabotage of cold fusion in 1989
4) Shelving or undermining promising technology. This list is huge.
5) Vast increases in the use of nuclear power

Politicized science serves to keep the existing business and political paradigm running. Number one and two above keep all the fossil fuel interests very happy. To acknowledge global warming upsets the business and political dinosaur paradigm that we are rotting in right now. The first half of this essay does not legitimize the points concerning global warming in the last section.

The politicization of global warming has nothing to do with the science! This is a key point.

   

'therec are those on this site who do not want the party system beough into check.
name names


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"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan."

* George Bu

   

Eugenics is a fancy name for f*ck em over. Pharmaceuticals companies I'm sure are at the back end of it somehow.

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A little peice of heaven is found in good deeds.

   

Also it has never seized to amaze me what great lengths the human beast will go to hook itself on its own baited bloody lure. How did we ever get so fucked up as to be slaves to our own device? A mechanism formed to make everyday life simpler has becpome an all consuming pile of bullshit. Commerce and finance. Money and Riches. We are slaves to our own demise as well as the author.

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A little peice of heaven is found in good deeds.