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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (7654)	10/14/2006 2:56:40 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Crichton was certainly spot on about a respected member of your so called Royal Society Francis Galton who got the ball rolling for Hitler's Nazi Germany. royalsoc.ac.uk "The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones --- the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the "feeble minded." Francis Galton, a respected British scientist, first speculated..." en.wikipedia.org BTW - I'm applying for a grant from the Royal Society - the purpose of the grant will be to come with new ideas designed to scare the bejesus out of people. It seems like a very popular and modern thing to do. e-gap.royalsoc.ac.uk

To: maceng2 who wrote (7654)	10/14/2006 4:20:34 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

Crichton's odd little autobiography makes it clear he is into 'anti-science." As a matter of fact he has made a career writing potboilers about science gone amuck. Only makes sense that he would try to build on that now by accusing environmental scientists of misdeeds. Any further doubts about Crichton can be eliminated by reading the chapter in his book "Travels" about the little 'entity' that set up shop in a corner of his mind, and psyche. He's a real new agey anti scientist kinda guy. Nothing wrong with that until he starts posing as a serious lecturer. Then it's deceptive and destructive.