Refusing to fight a war is not the same thing is lamenting the need to fight it.

Well, as we all know, organolead compounds are perfectly safe.

Lots of paint, too. Mmmm, lead paint.

There's good and bad. There were traffic accidents before automobiles, too, and I'm not sure the rate of accidents resulting in serious injury was lower before automobiles than now. If anything, horses are less predictable than internal combustion engines.

Actually, now that I can see your unapproved comments, it's clear that the issue is with the idiotic Kinja changes. You have been explaining yourself, but only some of your posts are showing up on the top-level thread view. My apologies.

You could continue to behave as an arrogant prig on a burner account, or you could actually be useful to the community and explain yourself. Your choice.

I think that may explain individuals becoming more partisan, but how does it explain counties becoming less bipartisan?

Ok. Why is this all news now when it appears that the research and science fair presentation occurred over a year ago?

http://absci.fiu.edu/2013/02/interv…

Just to be clear: Fischer Aitchtuoh is not a real person. It's the identity used by CFAS for their aggregated news stories.

I don't think anyone claims that a 12-year-old was responsible and therefore to blame for any of this. If the marine biologist's claims are valid, then there's still time for all those involved to make responsible (and face saving) decisions.

No matter what he does, Jud will have tarnished this childs belief in the wonder of science.

I'm confused... if Ms. Arrington has insufficient training to know that sources must be cited, how did she know enough to take "those observations and built on them by formally testing the lionfish in the laboratory and establishing a gradient of salinity(?) tolerance
"? This is a rhetorical question.

Here's what Fischer Aitchtuoh from the Central Florida Aquarium Society has learned:

I guess that fits my current career trajectory. BS in physics. MS (and ABD, not that it helps) in CS. I write mathematics software.

There's nothing libertarian about the Heartland Institute. They are hired shills who perform public relations work on the behalf of powerful industries and very large corporations. They are paid to confuse the public discourse on scientific matters in an effort to create a false impression of debate. They take…

Sqrt[-1] is not real! Teach the controversy.

It would help if you had a tech industry that wasn't always three months away from total implosion.

Science is neutral. When business, political, and cultural powers can exploit it, they do. When they find it a threat, they repress it.

Shorter Heartland: "Scientists are eeeevil".

The next thing you know, they'll start accusing their political enemies of being "card carrying members of the AAAS." Oh wait, *I am*.

Yes, it's always been this way, and it's not just Americans.