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'This is like The Shawshank Redemption, only with more tunneling through shit and no fucking redemption.'
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Fuck me. I could have written that.Deep Sea Isopod wrote:I'm reading The Geek Manifesto. It's an eye opener. To think there are so many thick twats running the country, who sack the intelligent people who want to use science based evidence to influence government policy.
Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, science is critical. Yet politics and public life too often occupy a science-free zone.
Just one of our 650 MPs is a scientist. Ministers ignore, and even sack, scientific advisers who offer inconvenient evidence. The NHS spends taxpayers’ money on sugar pills it knows won’t work, while public funding for research that would boost the economy is cut. Groundless media scares, taken up by politicians who should know better, poison public debate on vaccines and climate change, GM crops and nuclear power.
In this agenda-setting book, Mark Henderson builds a powerful case that science should be much more central than it is to government and the wider national conversation. It isn’t only that scientific understanding is passed over as decisions are made; the experimental methods of science aren’t applied to evaluating policy either.
Politicians, Henderson argues, pay lip service to science for a very simple reason: they know they can get away with it. And that will change only when people who care about science get politically active. It’s time to mobilise the geeks.
Something is stirring among those curious kids who always preferred sci-fi to celebrity magazines. As the success of Brian Cox and Ben Goldacre shows, geeks have stopped apologising for an obsession with asking how and why, and are starting to stand up for it instead.
The Geek Manifesto shows how people with a love of science can get political, to create a force our leaders can no longer afford to ignore.
The geeks are coming. Our countries need us.
I'm not even half way through the book and I can now realise why this country (and the US) is in the mess it's in.
It gives example of pure stupidity, like David Tredennick, MP for Bosworth, who tried to argue that the full moon caused more car crashes, caused blood to clot, and claims surgeons refused to do operations on a full moon.
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One day I am going to grow wings
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Forever In Our Shadow
It's now ELEVEN LONG YEARS since spurs last won a trophy
Why don't talkSPORT ever mention this ?
Have you ever seen tottenham win the league?
Click here :- http://www.haveyoueverseentottenhamwintheleague.com/
It's now ELEVEN LONG YEARS since spurs last won a trophy
Why don't talkSPORT ever mention this ?
Have you ever seen tottenham win the league?
Click here :- http://www.haveyoueverseentottenhamwintheleague.com/
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NO
Forever In Our Shadow
It's now ELEVEN LONG YEARS since spurs last won a trophy
Why don't talkSPORT ever mention this ?
Have you ever seen tottenham win the league?
Click here :- http://www.haveyoueverseentottenhamwintheleague.com/
It's now ELEVEN LONG YEARS since spurs last won a trophy
Why don't talkSPORT ever mention this ?
Have you ever seen tottenham win the league?
Click here :- http://www.haveyoueverseentottenhamwintheleague.com/
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Sadly, the book doesn't live up to the author's name. But what a name!
I used to be quite popular round here, you know.
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One day I am going to grow wings
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A joyless arsehole.
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Revisiting the bookshelf
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Must...resist....the....urge.....
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If it is about my book be carefulMan_called_sun wrote:Must...resist....the....urge.....
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Errr.....no....therealHJ wrote:If it is about my book be carefulMan_called_sun wrote:Must...resist....the....urge.....
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This slick bastard has lived a life and a half
Oh Five - Oh Two - Twenty Four
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