Letters to the Editor
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@Parson Jim
Kiss American leadership in science goodbye when the Title IX gender cops and wimpified politicos get a hold of it.
Point taken--science can be undermined by ideological attacks from all sides, by the Right and the Left, by government and private interests, and for a whole host of reasons. Rest assured, however, that the single biggest threat to America's scientific literacy and proficiency today is to be found not among the leftist PC and gender war crowd, but on the Right. By a long shot. Read The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney for a good primer on the topic.
Oh, and America's leadership in science is withering rapidly, again thanks mostly to attacks from the Right and our poor overall educational standards and achievements relative to the rest of the West. The US has fallen behind Europe in the publication of scientific papers, for instance. And when one considers that so much science in America is being conducted by foreigners and not by native-born, native-educated researchers, it becomes apparent that the magnitude of the problem with science education in the US is more grim than even the worrisome surface appearances would indicate.
But hey, not to worry, as American science recently celebrated the opening of a $27 million Creation Museum in suburban Cincinnati (www.creationmuseum.org), that will finally put to rest those silly Darwinian fantasies and promote the "truth" of Genesis! Awesome! How can America not be proud of such an amazing "scientific" achievement?! Of course humans lived with dinosaurs just like in The Flintstones. This is evidence that American science is as healthy as ever, and ready to resume its commanding lead over the rest of the world. Watch out Europe, here we come!