Subj : Mystic Pi Year of the Rabbit
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From : Mystic Pi BBS
Date : Fri Aug 11 2023 02:02:01

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/ A serious public debate about the       \
| validity of astrology? A serious        |
| believer in the White House? Two of     |
| them? Give me a break. What stifled my  |
| laughter is that the image fits. Reagan |
| has always exhibited a fey indifference |
| toward science. Facts, like numbers,    |
| roll off his back. And we've all come   |
| to accept it. This time it was          |
| stargazing that became a serious        |
| issue....Not that long ago, it was      |
| Reagan's support of                     |
| Creationism....Creationists actually    |
| got equal time with evolutionists. The  |
| public was supposed to be open-minded   |
| to the claims of paleontologists and    |
| fundamentalists, as if the two were     |
| scientific colleagues....It has been    |
| clear for a long time that the          |
| president is averse to science...In     |
| general, these attitudes fall onto      |
| friendly American turf....But at the    |
| outer edges, this skepticism about      |
| science easily turns into a kind of     |
| naive acceptance of nonscience, or even |
| nonsense. The same people who doubt     |
| experts can also believe any quackery,  |
| from the benefits of laetrile to eye of |
| newt to the movement of planets. We     |
| lose the capacity to make rational --   |
| scientific -- judgments. It's all the   |
| same. -- Ellen Goodman, The Boston      |
| Globe Newspaper Company-Washington Post |
| Writers                                 |
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