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Words to live byIf you go ahead and boycott you may as well should brace yourself to risk losing your job. But to advise that as a reason not to is as wortheless as telling someone not to go to war because they may die! Obviously in fighting for anything worthy there is much risk and much sacrifice and that is what America is all about. This is a monumental movement. Has the tumult of illegal immigrants marching helped their cause in the past? Yes it has. It brought immigrants out of the shadows and into the light. It put the 'A' for amnesty in Senate's immigration debate. What will a boycott do I am not sure but I am suspicious of all the nay sayers who tell others to be mediocre in their endeavors. The hypocrisy of greed has led to this by allowing companies to partake in illegal hiring practices. And everyone is guilty of that from politicians to farmers to those who needed their garden hedged. This is the unfortunate backlash of a broken immigration system. We only have ourselves to blame and should stop scapegoating and criminalizing those who came here in search of a better life. Subscribe Buttons                    | |
Ah yes...
More of your polite objectivity.
I merely gave your background on Hansen and some links to groups handling scientific inetgrity and censorship issues. And you come back with "self serving political manipulation language with no basis in reality." Hansen had no self-serving poltitical goal in mind whatsoever prior to reaching disillusionment with his previous path of trying to work with Bush. And now his only "self-serving political" goal is to stop lawyers from telling him how he is allowed to discuss science.
As to other Administrations, I would be as critical of them if and when I hear the same kind of overwhelming disillusionment I hear right now. I never have. Not under Reagan, not under the elder Bush and not under Clinton. And I have been a scientist through all of those administrations. Sicentists of all kinds are horrified with what's going on right now in a way I have never seen before. UCS never felt it necessary to set up a separate "scientific integrity" project. Nobel Prize winners never before felt they had to set up their own PAC to protect scientific integrity (as far as I know). And I have never seen so many opinion pieces in Science and Nature about political attacks on science as I do now. I also wonder why "but everyone else does it" would be a sound arguement anyway. But even if other presidents did it as well, and I suspect there is some truth to that, this is way beyond what has happened before.