"Science is not bonded to secular world, although it seems this to the people who have not studied history of science. Science is not exclusively associated to any ideology, religion or absence of religion. Science is a tool and can be used for any ideology you imagine. Nazism used science for its awful experiments, for example."

But Nazi science, like the Lysenkoist science under Stalin, was substandard at best, especially where ideology controlled it. Stalin, like Hitler, managed to kill, jail, or frighten into exile the best minds in his country. The only reason Stalin got the secret of nuclear warfare was because it was given to him by people such as the Rosenbergs who didn't want to see the US as a global nuclear dictator.

Or look at the Christian culture which you uphold as superior to Muslim culture. The fates of Gailieo and Giordano Bruno tell what happens to those scientists who dare show the Catholic church that it's wrong on an issue, when the church has enough power to make its wishes felt.

And if you want to see how the Catholic church to this day favors fathers who rape and impregnate their own daughters over the people trying to save those little girls' lives from the pregnancies that would otherwise kill them slowly and painfully -- and in fact excommunicates those who would try to save the little girls' lives -- just look here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/that_inhuman_monolith.php

There's this thing called "carrying capacity".

The people, Muslims, Catholics, and Quiverfull adherents alike, who advocate unrestrained breeding are going to run into that brick wall should they be allowed to run the world. They may deny the effects of overpopulation -- or that overpopulation even exists -- not to mention climate change, pollution and a host of other ills directly related to human activity, but their denying these effects won't make the effects go away.

Which brings us back again to the subject of religion and science. In America, the conservative wings of our Christian religious communities, Catholic and Protestant, have allied themselves with the anti-environmentalist business community, and as noted above reject environmental science. It's only been in recent years that some prominent conservative preachers, such as Rick Warren, have started to recognize the validity of environmental science, and also that we can't keep treating the earth like a disposable latrine -- and these heretical preachers are being heatedly attacked for their stances.

As Laurel pointed out waaaay at the start of this thread:

Europeans (especially the French!) have much higher smoking rates than Americans. (I think it is about time we gave ourselves a mutual big pat on the back, for the huge accomplishment of driving smoking rates down from a high of 77% in the 50s, to the present low of 24%.) In Europe, even with excellent universal health care, most adults still smoke. I wonder if any statisticians have ever explored the link between US obesity rates AND our drop in smoking rates, and run those numbers against so-called European slimness and their own HIGH smoking rates, and drawn any conclusions, such as, perhaps Europeans are thinner not because they are so darned perfect or eat so little, but because THEY SMOKE.

One of the first things that happens when people quit or even cut back on smoking: Weight gain, usually between ten and twenty pounds in less than six months. It doesn't go away, either.

The main reason our chicken is bland compared to Chinese chicken is, I suspect, because most chickens aren't allowed to get very old before they're slaughtered -- thanks to the modern Vitamin-D-boosted feed they're given, American chickens reach slaughter weight in six weeks, whereas they used to take eighteen weeks (which not coincidentally is the period of time it takes for hens to become sexually mature egg-layers). The older the chicken, the more developed their bone marrow and the more flavorful the meat and and any soup made therefrom.

This is why, should you wish to make chicken soup stock, it's a good idea to find a place that sells stewing hens or even old roosters, as they've been around long enough to have richly developed marrow in their bones. (Of course, if you want a milder flavor for your stock -- which you might want if you intend to pair it with foods like morels -- then using six-week-old grocery-store hens is fine.)

Just let them. They'll look like idiots.

If you're talking about testing for things that Occam's Razor tells you are unlikely if not impossible, that's a huge waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere.

For instance: The antivax crowd says that we need more testing to see if vaccines cause autism in children. The problem is that autism is a neurological issue that the child has at birth, though it typically doesn't manifest until the child is a toddler -- right around, if not a touch after, the time vaccines are often given. Correlation does not imply causation, as any scientist can tell you.