I grew up in a time of science. The cold war actually pushed science to the front and politics to the background based on a need to stay out front in a dangerous world. My children have grown up in a time of politics, revisionism and misinformation.Today science is a political tool used to demonize capitalism and reduce the power and influence of western culture, for what is perceived to be the good of earth and mankind from a global perspective.
I frankly do not read scientific journals anymore, there was a time when I could not get enough of them.
I built my first telescope while in high school and started the first astronomy club at our little school. I used a lenses kit from fisher scientific and made the tube from cardboard. I also hand made the eyepieces and coated the mirrors. I was into science.
Later, as an engineer I continued an interest in pure sciences.
Then, along came the idea that man was an infestation on a fragile helpless system called earth, mother to be descriptive.. Science died at the hands of liberal professors who longed to be back in the commune high on LSD. Teachers with an agenda that superceded proven methods, and a love for wonderment and truth.
science - rest in peace.
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