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Hey, you in the lab coat. Stop your filthy science right now, I have policy to fabricate!
If Steven Harper was a puppy, he would be getting a firm “NO” and a being ignored right now when it comes to his views on science and the dissemination of scientific knowledge through government agencies. We get it Stevie, you hates the empirical reality that science provides because it makes your socially conservative ideology(census anyone, or Prisons perhaps?) look like horseshit.
Our systematic dismembering of Canadian Science has not gone unnoticed. Nature has released a short editorial decrying the ineptitude of the our Conservative government on the handling of science.
“Over the same period, Canada has moved in the opposite direction [from the fundagelically fracked up United States, no less]. Since Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party won power in 2006, there has been a gradual tightening of media protocols for federal scientists and other government workers. Researchers who once would have felt comfortable responding freely and promptly to journalists are now required to direct inquiries to a media-relations office, which demands written questions in advance, and might not permit scientists to speak. Canadian journalists have documented several instances in which prominent researchers have been prevented from discussing published, peer-reviewed literature. Policy directives and e-mails obtained from the government through freedom of information reveal a confused and Byzantine approach to the press, prioritizing message control and showing little understanding of the importance of the free flow of scientific knowledge.”
You know there is a problem when we are being compared negatively to the US with regards to the dissemination of scientific information.
Apple Sheep – fall in! The next exceedingly incremental step of the latest Apple generative tech monolith is available. Blah blah blah better video, better camera. But hoo-boy, if you like the Ipad(3?) then just wait till the ipad(s?) comes out. I would have focused more on the generative aspects of Apple technology, but in lieu of making my own ranty video, this one will have to do.
Why do atheists hate so much? Is it some sort of unnatural compulsion to blasphemy and make the religious feel uncomfortable? Well, not really. The message from this part of the atheist community is clear: believing in the supernatural is not rational and basing decisions that affect people and institutions on mythology is credulous behaviour at best. This cartoon has been making the rounds in various atheist hotspots( I found it on Good Reason) on the net, and I reproduce it here for you today for the Sunday Disservice. The cartoon is a concise summary of why many atheists sound and act the way they do.
The origin of another useless man-made artifice.
The Long Gun Registry, More Prisons, and of course, lets not forget the long form census…
It has been a long winter here in Canada. Not particularly cold, but the washed out monotones of the season begun to wear on even the most sturdy of us by March. The answer, the magic tonic, is great music, great musicians and verdantly great scenery from Hawaii, no less!
I’m with Rick on this one.
Voter turnout it at an all time low in Canada, let’s not increase that number anymore okay Steve?
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