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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) at p.32.
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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
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Tag Archives: micro.blog
Tuesday 6th of October 2020
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Happy Cinco de Cuatro
Happy Cinco de Cuatro everyone! Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 30th of April 2020
“Covid-19 coronavirus is still new to humans, so we don’t have as much immune protection built up against it — so the virus seems able to overcome summer-like weather and still cause big outbreaks.” –> Why summer likely won’t save us from the coronavirus Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Tuesday 24th of March 2020
🎶 Listening to “Brown Sugar” by ZZ Top from the album ZZ Top’s First Album… Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 19th of March 2020
“A government simulation last year named ‘Crimson Contagion’ made it clear the U.S. wasn’t ready for a pandemic. But little was done in response.” –> Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 16th of March 2020
“Mr. Jones, who has used his radio show and website to promote conspiracy theories, is falsely claiming his products can fight the virus.” –> Alex Jones Is Told to Stop Selling Sham Anti-Coronavirus Toothpaste Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 16th of March 2020
“The best thing federal regulatory agencies can do to stop coronavirus right now is to speedily step out of the way. No libertarians in a pandemic? Nonsense.” –> REASON ROUNDUP Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Tuesday 10th of March 2020
Deciding to “wipe out the scourge of education once and for all,” DeVos said that, within days of taking office, she drew up an ambitious plan called No School Left Open. –> Betsy DeVos Says She Was Planning to Close All Schools Anyway Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Friday 6th of March 2020
“Nothing makes government grow like a crisis.” –> Coronavirus Will Be Deadly To Your Liberty Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 5th of March 2020
“Mike, you were supposed to tell God to make Sleepy Joe lose,” Trump snapped. “A lot of good your ‘praying’ did.” –> Trump Screams at Pence for Not Praying Hard Enough to Make Biden Lose Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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