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Ted A Gavinski Send message Joined: 2 May 01 Posts: 10 Credit: 4,408 RAC: 0 |
One Giant Leap For Mankind (backwards) Reuters reported today(Reuters) how the debate over the teaching of the "Intellegent Design" that has some scientists warning that this trend threatens achedemics and science. "Among the most significant forces is the rising tide of anti-science sentiment that seems to have its nucleus in Washington but which extends throughout the nation," said Philip Pizzo, Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Hunter Rawlings, acting President of Cornell University , speaking about the challenge to science represented by "intelligent design" which holds that the theory of evolution accepted by the vast majority of scientists is fatally flawed, said, "When ideological division replaces informed exchange, dogma is the result and education suffers." Rawlings also said that the dispute was widening political, social, religious and philosophical rifts in U.S. society. Also, Entrepreneur wrote in its November 2005 issue,(Entrepreneur Article) that only 6% of American undergraduate degrees were in natural sciences or engineering. Furthermore, only 29% of the papers presented in the top physics journals were by American scientists. American teens ranked 24th of 29 in basic math skills. The United States is losing its innovative edge. We are regressing technologically by leaps and bounds. It is to our shame if we allow this to continue. We put men on the Moon and brought them back alive with technology that pales by today's standards, using computers that can not compete with today's video games. This must be remedied. We should all work together to fund and support education and the sciences. Let us halt this great backward leap. Please join us at The United Federation Foundation to help halt this shamefull back-slide |
AC Send message Joined: 22 Jan 05 Posts: 3413 Credit: 119,579 RAC: 0 |
Hi Ted. Check out my opinion about this in my response to your post at Science. |
ghstwolf Send message Joined: 14 Oct 04 Posts: 322 Credit: 55,806 RAC: 0 |
One Giant Leap For Mankind (backwards) It's not the funding of Education that is the problem. The money is there for sciences, but there needs to be an emphasis on it. For all the bitching about funding, throwing more money at it will not help. We need a better solution. A move back to a pure academics, but to do this we need a million small changes in how we currently operate. First on this list, is to stop wasting time. Math, science, and history all fail this test. Too much time is spent revisiting concepts without any advance. Year to year students change diciplines, with little to no continuity. History is a bit more obvious (but the principle is the same). Every time American history starts it means starting back at square one, because atleast 2yrs have passed between (BTW, what happened after the Civil war? ;) ). And worse the detail never really increases, same events are covered, in the same way. Now if you put 2 yrs together, the civil war wouldn't be the ending point. Science would benefit from the same approach, as would math. Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here. |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
More spam from the United Federation Foundation. Speaking of which.. whatever happened to that 911 conspiracy dude? |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
More spam from the United Federation Foundation. Speaking of which.. whatever happened to that 911 conspiracy dude? You forgot the 411 conspiracy, paying for useless information. Account frozen... |
Ted A Gavinski Send message Joined: 2 May 01 Posts: 10 Credit: 4,408 RAC: 0 |
More spam from the United Federation Foundation. Speaking of which.. whatever happened to that 911 conspiracy dude? # Spam (food), a brand of canned meat sold by Hormel. # Spam (Monty Python), a comedy sketch involving this meat, which in turn gave rise to the sense below. # Spam (electronic), unsolicited or undesired bulk electronic messages, such as e-mail spam. # Street spam, a.k.a. Flyposting, illegal blanket advertising in public places. To which do you refer? I've offered no canned pork, nor have I refered anyone to the Minister of Silly Walks. No bulk messages were sent. I'm neither adversiting, soliciting business nor am I asking for funding or compensation. Again I ask you: What spam? |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
the Minister of Silly Walks. Guido is in da house? |
ghstwolf Send message Joined: 14 Oct 04 Posts: 322 Credit: 55,806 RAC: 0 |
GW (me)- SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS STUFFY-NOSED MALODOROUS PERVERT!!! Ted-Yes, but I came here for an argument!! GW- OH! Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse! (and so on) Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here. |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Oh, you mean the Argument Clinic "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
ghstwolf Send message Joined: 14 Oct 04 Posts: 322 Credit: 55,806 RAC: 0 |
Yes I do, those 3 lines seem to translate well to this format. Somehow (even if only in my mind) it fits this thread. Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here. |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Could also be the Spam Sketch "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
ghstwolf Send message Joined: 14 Oct 04 Posts: 322 Credit: 55,806 RAC: 0 |
I would agree, if I had concluded that this was "spam". I've been slacking in reading the several of the forums I usually read, so I haven't noticed the UFF before (they still have "benefit of the doubt" with me). Besides "the Spam Sketch" is a bit to obvious here, (insert some cleaver segway, I cannot think of right now) No one expects the Spainish Inquisition. Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here. |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
You don't want it then? The Spanish Inquisition "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
Francis Noel Send message Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 452 Credit: 142,832,523 RAC: 94 |
But... No one expects the spanish inquisition ! mambo |
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