"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Seer
And so it is that Congressional Republicans have loaded the House Committee on Science, including its chairman, with none but science-deniers. And why Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann and Louis Gohmert and Paul Broun, etc etc etc ad facepalmium, remain leading lights in the party.
Oh, how we are screwed.
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