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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (145514)	5/15/2001 11:33:49 AM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I don't know if your reading of Pflaum's post is simply in error or deliberately obtuse, making his point. He's not saying "it'll never work." And the fact that we have what you call an honest and competent administration for a change certainly does not preclude them from realizing that "it'll never work without taking science seriously." In fact, if they were as honest and competent as you suggest, it would be their responsibility to do so. But no, what we have so far is completely consistent: "There is no such thing as reliable science. All science is political. Therefore we will discount science and do what we think is right because we are of good character."

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (145514)	6/27/2001 4:04:12 PM
From: Dr. Peter E. Pflaum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The idea that he does not know what he does not know does not seem to ever occur to Bush. This is a problem and one that is a great deal more consequential in the case of Putin than in the case of Sosa. dailynews.yahoo.com or care about, the limits of gut. He does not seem to want to bother with the tedious business of study and fact-assessment that is the process by which right decisions are most often arrived at--which is even then not so often. He does not seem to want to work at the thing.