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To: RetiredNow who wrote (7812)	4/29/2009 12:29:27 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

The more we foster a virtuous partnership between private industry, academia, and government, Partnership is one thing.. putting them all on the government payroll and telling them what to research isn't. Our government officials simply cannot continue to be so anti-science like Bush was. Funny.. I never got the impression that Bush was anti-science. Maybe you do because he didn't put more of them on the government payroll. He was definitely careful with moral questions (eg: embryonic stem cell research). But he had a number of science initiatives, and he was focused on testing standards for public education. edweek.org thecrimson.com Maybe you should listen to Orson Scott Card before you decide who is pro or anti science: (And let's just stop right now the silly idea that Republicans are somehow anti-science and Democrats pro-science. Both of them are for whatever science advances their own political agenda, and against any science that doesn't. Politics is invariably the natural enemy of science, and all parties are guilty of killing science for political ends – especially when they are shouting loudest about how their position is "supported by science.") ornery.org ritestuff.blogspot.com Hawk