Only One Kind Of Science By Rand Clifford

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May 14, 2007

Only One Kind of Science

By Rand Clifford

In a letter titled “Daylight exacerbates warming” on the April 16 editorial page of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, a lady from Hot Springs noted March 2007 as the warmest on record. To “any reasonable person” this should come as no surprise, she says, because Daylight Saving Time was started almost a month early this year. Congress should have known what a warming effect an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate...or maybe our liberal Congress did know, and it’s part of a plot to make us believe that global warming is a genuine menace? Of course implicit in this rationale is the solution to global warming. Would it take a scientist to realize we only need to set our clocks back a few hours, and the decrease in daylight the planet receives will be our deliverance?

Though the letter was satiric, coming from deep in Bush country made it virtually impossible to tell. After all, the islamofascists hate us for our freedoms. Brownie did a heckuva job after hurricane Katrina. Our “decider” has an open line to God. The invasion and occupation of Iraq has nothing to do with oil—Saddam was in cahoots with Bin Laden, and now we must deliver freedom and democracy to the good people of Iraq. Mission Accomplished (or was that Accomplishmented?) No child left behind. Nineteen Arab boys with box cutters defeated the defenses of world’s mightiest nation (apparently because somebody didn’t do a heckuva job)—the leader’s passport was even found on the sidewalk near one of the twin towers, having flittered down a sacred white pigeon, supernaturally protected from the fires of hell. A Boeing airliner punched a hole in the Pentagon you couldn’t squeeze a Volkswagen Beetle through—without even mussing up the lawn.

And chocolate milk? Polls suggest the number of Americans believing it comes from chocolate cows is sobering. Bread comes from the store. Gas comes from the pump. Presidents are who most of the people voted for. Noah built an ark, then it rained like a son-of-a-bitch on this planet now over six thousand years old.... Sometimes humorous, sometimes pathetic, often mind-boggling, rarely boring—the profound ignorance plaguing America can get deadly serious when it comes to science... there is only one kind of science--that which has given us scientific “miracles” we adore. Unfortunately, it has, lately, been telling us things we don’t want to hear regarding the way we’ve been programmed to live.

Bush people hate science. Scientists employ the Scientific Method, presenting testable theories, evidence and proven facts. Their reality-based guff runs counter to that of Bushentists, who create their own realities, and consider political dogma, religion, special interests and public relations the cornerstones of science. For example, instead of trying to reconcile the design of the Twin Towers with their preposterous collapse explanations, Bushentists simply changed the designs to fit their reality. Never mind that the Towers were built around massive concrete cores reinforced with 3-inch steel rebar—cores massive enough to coat 3 square miles of Manhattan with 3 inches of concrete dust after demolitions converted the cores to roiling gray clouds reminiscent of another Mt. St. Helens eruption. How could measely, starving fires in the Towers (most of the jet fuel burned off in those Hollywood fireballs on impact) pulverize the cores (for which FEMA substituted Wal*Mart trusses) and run detonations up and down the Towers that spit out precision-cut steel beams before relaxing into pools of molten steel seething at 1400 degrees Fahrenheit a week later? <4> The Bushentists have already explained.

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Authors Website: www.starchiefpress.com

Authors Bio: Rand Clifford is a novelist and essayist living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING, and TIMING are published by StarChief Press.


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