Davoud:
Bush has demonstrated that science must agree with the right-wing
ideologues who pull his puppet strings, or be rejected...

Phil Wheeler:
And this has what to do with astronomy?

A great deal.

John Kerry has just earned the endorsement of *48 Nobel Prize-winning
scientists*. He has criticized President Bush for relying on ideology
rather than fact in the pursuit of science and repeated his pledge to
overturn the ban on federal funding of research on new stem cell lines.

And this has what to do with astronomy?

Ask physicists James Cronin of the University of Chicago and Leon
Lederman, former director of Fermilab, who were among the Nobel
laureautes the Nobel laureate physicists who endorsed John Kerry.

Now see if you can figure out which one would be more likely to ban
federal funding for research in astronomy and cosmology because their
findings contradict the dogma that the Universe is 4,000 years old.

...from someone obviously from the extreme left.

Extreme left? That's an understatement, but thank you! I'm a citizen of
the great country that _invented_ the concept of revolution by the
radical left. And thank you for not calling me a liberal! The
right-wing extremists who hold power in this country have pushed me so
far to the left that I'm beginning to wonder if maybe Trotsky and
Lenin, both of whom I have long admired, might have, in fact, been
Reagan Republicans.

Davoud

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