Obama's War on Science

Obama's War on Science

Our president is waging an undeclared war against “inconvenient” science.

Evidence of Obama’s subversion of apolitical scientific inquiry became apparent last summer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

NASA’s preeminent role as America’s scientific leader has been undisputed for over half a century and NASA has rewarded the nation and the world with phenomenal accomplishments including the Apollo moon program, Skylab, the International Space Station, and the Hubble telescope Space Telescope, not to mention developing Tang.

It’s been speculated that had not the United States wasted trillions over the years on useless and unproductive social boondoggles, America could already have visited and even established colonies on other planets but politicians preferred to buy votes rather than explore the universe, but that issue is tangential to Obama’s war on science.

NASA’s mission statement incorporated plans to “pioneer the future in space exploration and aeronautics research.” That was then, this is the Obama administration.

Last July, NASA’s new civilian administrator, Charles Bolden, let the cat out of Obama’s bag of tricks during an interview with Al Jazeera, the Arabic language news network, that his “foremost” mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world. He was ordered to forget all that pioneering and scientific research: “Obama wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science. . . and math and engineering:” http://tiny.cc/b5oa0

Granted, Muslims achieved great breakthroughs in mathematics, science, and medicine during Islam’s Golden Age. However, that gild was applied between five and eight hundred years ago and Islam’s chief advancement since then has been perfecting much more practical creations such as ied’s and land mines designed to kill and maim in its bloody worldwide jihad.

America’s greatest scientific enterprise thereby took a backseat to Obama’s twisted political expediency and bizarre effort to make Muslims “feel good” about themselves as if building up their self esteem would make them nicer people.

Obama’s attempted destruction of NASA–Bolden subsequently retracted his statement which meant he had either lied to Al Jazeera or the president had lied to him–hasn’t worked. Yet.

The bitter irony in the president trying to divert the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s scientific mission into becoming Islamic cheerleaders is highlighted by the president’s lofty words on science spoken in March, 2009 when he said, “Let’s be clear: promoting science isn’t just about providing resources–it is also about protecting free and open inquiry. It is about letting scientists . . . do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it’s inconvenient–especially when it’s inconvenient.”

Here was his kicker: ”It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda–and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”

Such outrageous hypocrisy!

An article on RedState.com, “Obama Administration Covering Up Abortion Data,” begins by citing the above quotation . . .
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