Park Validates Ars Hermeneutica's Mission
Here is one item from this week's "What's New", by Bob Park (5 September 2008 issue). I take it as validation of Ars Hermeneutica's view that increasing science literacy in America is vitally needed and will help enfranchise voters who find themselves at a loss to judge the words or deeds of politicians when it comes to science policy and policy affected by science.
DEBATE: DID "SCIENCE" GET A MENTION IN ST. PAUL?
Last week we did a word search for "science" in Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver. We thought it unfortunate that Obama made only a single reference to science. As you have surely noticed, WN [What's New] is firmly non-partisan, so we ran the same search on a transcript of McCain’s acceptance speech last night in St. Paul. "Text not found" popped up. Could this be? Our nation is roiled by controversies over evolution, nuclear power, climate change, energy shortage, stem cells, Plan B, all of which must turn to science for their resolution. Indeed, is there an issue the nation faces that doesn’t turn on science? "Perhaps the search technology failed," I thought, "try another word." I typed in "fight." There were 25 hits. Hmmm.
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on Friday, 5 September 2008 at 23.15
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Congrats on the validation, Jeff. No surprise McCain doesn't want to bring up science. I'm sure McCain believes in it, but he's sold out to people of a different mindset.
As to all the "fight" references in McCain's acceptance speech, when he was rattling them off I was thinking, "Indeed, my friends, I can't seem to get along with anybody."