Charlie Rose Science Series: The Imperative of Science

Charlie Rose Science Series: The Imperative of Science with Paul Nurse, President of Rockefeller University, Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bruce Alberts, Editor-In-Chief of Science and Lisa Randall of Harvard University.

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[redflags123]

In one of his last interviews Carl Sagan called for the need on the part of Americans to develop and impart the habit of _critical_ thinking.

[sistalinda]

Talk Radio dogma exacerbates laziness of thought. The reward of mediocrity has too long been a reasonable lifestyle and more than abundant resources for the majority of westerners.

We should know we are in trouble when the practice of democracy, ie freedom of speech, threatens to destroy that very democracy, a la Rush Limbaugh's call for OPERATION CHAOS.

[blackberryjuice1]

why are you bringing up race? This has nothing to do with race, it's about science. *YOU*, my friend, are playing the race card by injecting race where it doesn't belong.

[Bahia82]

Where did you people grow up, LOL.I went to public schools, and on one taught me that republicans or Liberals were anything. Now is there liberal bias in textbooks YES is there liberal bias in the media of course, but the funny thing is that these conservatives who whine about their unfair treatment attacks blacks who also claim there is bias towards minorities in the media.blacks are somehow using the race card? so we should believe that their is bias towards conservatives but not minorities?

[eltototo21]

I am learning more from the comments than from the video, thanx

[kgwickings]

I don't see the point in going on. It just goes around in circles. Sure people are flawed, but science doesn't run itself.

If I don't swallow what I am spoonfed I am fearful? My comments aren't absolute..they aren't what YOU believe so you call them extreme. Of course, this makes me emotional. Your response to me is exactly the patronizing, condescending attitude that does make my blood boil.

Since we are so off topic I agree to disagree as nothing is going to come of this discussion.

[sistalinda]

This comment is really problematic. You express so much fear. And so many of your statements are absolute and frankly take on the extreme quality you seem to disdain.

Very emotional.

Science is not flawed, people are flawed.

The value of critical thinking learned through a high quality education which includes improved teaching methods in the field of science is what is at stake.

That is what is on the table.

[kgwickings]

I started listening to Rush ONLY because I wanted to see if it was true what people said about him. I didn't find him to be racist, sexist, hateful and listened regularly as the media twisted his meaning and words. That being said, I don't agree with A LOT of what he says, but I can still listen to another point of view. But, the things that Rush says about liberals are no worse than what the left says about Rep/cons. Actually, I am more of a libertarian, but I identify with conservatives.

[kgwickings]

btw, I have a degree in cultural anthropology so it isn't as though I don't know the wonderful things about other cultures. However, most would agree we have made progress in our own culture, but refuse condemn the practices of other cultures b/c that would be ethnocentric.

I don't think these divides are artificial--they are basic fundamental differences in the way people see the world. I think if people pay too much attention to Rush, they just give him power.

[kgwickings]

Here is where debating is difficult. You automatically assume that my idea is ugly. That is what I am talking about. If you really want to understand why many people don't like the concept read Kenan Malik's essay on problems of multi-culturism. It comes closest to explaining what I believe.

[sistalinda]

Be conservative. But don't be deceived. And don't be silent. Express your views. There is much agreement between these schools of political thought. But don't assume too much.

Why shouldn't you and I have a conversation that doesn't assume the worst in each other.

Don't miss this point. As a conservative, I find Rush's use of Free Speech distructive to the democratic process. It's not that hard to see. But it is hard to cut away all the foolishness that creates artificial divides.