 Laws a fair capitalism and individual rights Yaron Brooke the executive director of the iron Rand Institute invites you to the conversation The Iran Brooke show starts now on a560 the answer Hey, so you guys out there marching for science today is the March for Science You should be out in the streets. I mean Any of you anti science don't you want more science? Don't you support science? I certainly do But would I much for a march for science on earth day? No No, not an earth day. I mean if they had on another day I Would consider it But the very fact that the March for Science is On earth they Suggest that this is about politics. This is about a philosophical agenda. This is about indeed the negation of Science because what does earth they represent? What day is like a? March to scare people into believing that the earth is gonna the world is gonna end any day now All because of you because of our human activity What they is an anti-man anti-life anti-industrialization anti-human progress Anti-science day that's what earth they is anti-progress and the technology It's about shutting us down and Yet they want to pretend they would pretend that they are the rational defenders of science Now I wish that were true. I know not that I wish they were the defenders I wish I wish there was a real march of science. I would march for much for science. I mean there's actually a A lot of reasons to worry about science and to be pro-science right now and to advocate for science because I believe science is under attack Constantly by left and right But think about what earth they represent earth they was started in 1970 By the ecology movement back then it was called that later morphed into the environmentalist movement And what is the premise of earth day? well, I I I Have a quote from an article I was reading It says the earth is dying the science is clear. It's so easy and obvious so I can't all of you understand it Really the earth is dying The earth is gonna kill us. I mean I give me a break human beings have this millennial You know end of the world It's almost scenario embedded in their minds that keeps coming back over and over and over again We're gonna die of overpopulation. We're gonna die of global cooling We're gonna die of cancer because of all the chemicals we spew out We're gonna die because the world is getting warmer and yet life expectancy goes up The health of people all across the power of the planet is improving Life is becoming better. We're becoming wealthier particularly people in poor countries are becoming wealthier So, you know instead of Instead of You know celebrating human life human achievement human progress human health The human environment which is getting better and better all the time our water is cleaner our air is cleaner Instead they constantly no matter what we do to clean the environment They constantly tell us They're one the verge of destruction That we need to do something dramatic to save ourselves and usually that something dramatic is Stop halt. Don't live Don't use carbon fuels. Don't drive your car Sacrifice be noble. It's for good cause. We're gonna save humanity. That's what they're telling us it would be and It's sad and this is the Republicans fault. It's sad That these environmentalists have managed to co-opt science because they don't represent science They represent a religion. They represent mass hysteria. They represent Emotionalism panic fear But the problem is the Republican Party is represented by people don't believe in evolution. So they can't defend science. So politically nobody Nobody is defending science politically all we have are gangs They want to influence science in their own direction. So the Republicans Want to stop using stem cells, you know, embryonic stem cells because that's God is forbidding and the Democrats On all the science is conclusive. We are on the verge of ending the world unless we take over and Stop industrialization and stop technological progress Neither one is science neither party is the pro-science party both the anti-science And that's why I'd like to see a real science day a real March for science a March that represents a defense of real science Of evidence-based science of looking out there into reality and figuring out what works Explained reality what explains reality one doesn't both The theoretical level and then turning it into practical knowledge. I mean, we've advanced Fantastically over the last three and four hundred years scientifically. I mean, it's unbelievable how much we have and even more so I'd say in taking that science and applying it to Our lives applying it to the stuff that makes our lives Successful from indoor plumbing which requires science to building skyscrapers To all the goodies from cars to all the stuff that we use to of course the technology That I'm using to broadcast this show and every other piece of technology the super computer having my pocket and on and on and on We go. We are massive beneficiaries of the application of science to solving the problems Involved in human life and existence. All right, we're gonna take a call from Skyler and then we'll go on. Hey Skyler, how's it going? Yeah, well, I wish I wish it was I wish that's what they were celebrating I'm all for exploiting the oath I'll get to that in a minute. Go ahead It's related to that the three are reduce reuse and recycle how proper is it and when is it? When is it proper to use those things? It's ridiculous. Why would we reduce? We want abundance. We don't want to reduction We want to increase our standard of living. We want more wealth. We want more technology We want more goodies. We want more stuff We want to live the best life that we can live materially and spiritually and and the spirit needs the material so that you need to maximize both and There's no limit to human needs. We want more and that's a good thing. We want to innovate We want to go to the stars. I mean, there's no limit to our ambition to our dreams to our wants and Technology and science and engineering and and in capitalism really make it possible for us to achieve anything We want so why would use and the same thing with reuse? I mean sure when there's an economic reason to reuse and recycle Then then there'll be an economic motivation to do so but mostly Why spend the energy on we're using and recycling when my when we can spend the energy on Building and creating new stuff. I mean, I like to use the I mean recycling just doesn't make any sense that the trucks That pick up the recycling and and all the different garbage cans that we now have to put out in our yard Probably pollute more than anything you say by actually recycling and it's actually just have anything by recycling I'll give you an example of paper Nobody believes this but it's actually pure simple economics and reality the more paper you recycle the fewer trees They're going to be Because if you recycle all the paper then paper producers say well We'll need less paper new paper in the future and now plant less trees and they'll turn forests which are usually Grown in order to produce lumber for truth for paper for paper products They'll change the use of that land. They'll turn into agriculture land They're telling the housing development. They'll build a factory. They'll build a shopping mall Who knows what they'll build it, but they'll find a more economic use for that same land So the lower the demand for paper in the future the fewer trees there will be trees are a renewable resource any renewable resource The quantity of that renewable resource is completely dependent on the demand for that resource So if the demand for chickens go down because we stop eating chicken There will be fewer chickens in the world if the demand for paper goes down tomorrow dramatically There will actually be fewer trees in the world because we'll stop cutting them down now Yes, this assumes private property and this is true in the United States It might not be true in the Amazon, but it certainly is true in the United States and as a consequence Because paper demand has gone through the roof over the last hundred years They're more trees today in America than ever before plus We need less land in order to produce the same amount of food because of technology. So I am all against reduce reuse recycle I'm for Maximize your life. Go ahead. We've only got 40 seconds to make it quick Yeah, I mean if metal was was it made sense to recycle metal then they would pay you to recycle metal So I think it's true that in large quantities of metal Right like like cars and stuff like that. It makes sense to recycle. There's a huge recycling business in steel But I'm not sure it makes sense in many other things and again the marketplace would tell us. All right, Skyler Really appreciate the call. Good question Most recycling doesn't make any sense Scientifically and economically. All right. You're listening to your own book show. We'll be back in a few seconds Stuck in traffic. 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I'm always for science I'm a huge advocate for science all the time every day not on any special days all the time But but I don't think this earth day has anything to do with science I think earth day is anti science and to combine the two means that the environmentalists are trying to steal To steal the idea of science and make it theirs when the idea of science should be In the hands of those who believe in freedom and capitalism and reason and individualism And we'll get to the particular complaints of the environmentalist particularly the idea of more government funding and and Global warming and and all of that stuff. Well, we'll touch on them We can't we can't do the whole topic justice particularly given how many people already calling in but give me a break Give me a break. 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So so join the club You know, we can do a lot more together and have a lot more exchanges If you follow me in all those. All right pinkers, uh, you're frustrated and angry go at it The science has settled you rod The science has settled and this sounds like just another Koch brothers, you know, x on mobile Don't pay attention to the real damage. You know, I mean you talk about oh, don't recycle What about the externality? What about the asthma for kids? What about the damage that people like you are causing long term? To the to rivers to the environment to species that don't even exist anymore Plans that used to grow in certain areas So, you know, it's so easy to say oh, we're worried about another time and man will adapt But you're causing major impact to the environment and that's what science is about So you say you're all for science, but yeah, you're ignoring the science and 99% of scientists agree that we're hurting the planet How do you respond to that? Well, I mean if When the case is that scientists really agree that real damage is being done real damage is being done to Uh, to my river to the river from which I draw water then those rivers are cleaned up Indeed, we live in a world today where most of the waterways are unbelievably clean indeed, you know cleaner than they've ever been before That's where you can open up a tap anywhere in your home anywhere around Anywhere around the united states and feel free to just drink the water straight out of that tap Because we are so rich we've advanced so much that we've managed to clean up all this water because it's in our self interest To have clean water We don't spew really deadly stuff into the air anymore because we figured out that that was really harmful to human life And we stopped it. The problem is that more and more of environmentalism is not it's not about human life. It's not about how well Human beings live and how prosperous and are successful and how long and how healthy we as individuals live It's become much more of a movement. That's just anti Anti technology and it's about the worship. It's become about The worship of earth the worship of mother earth is why it's called earth day. It's about the worship of the mother earth It's about the worship of nature not about human beings now I claim that we live today because of capitalism because of wealth creation We live in the cleanest environment in human history. We live longer. We live better lives We live happier lives. We live richer lives than ever before in human history So What do we got to complain about all this hysteria and all this panic? You want to recycle fine? Nobody should stop you from recycling. You want to you want to stop using carbon fuels fine stop using carbon fuels, but don't Don't force me to do it And I was going to get to this point later But one of the one of the signs that these people are not really pro science Is that if you believe that carbon fuels are causing Real damage to the earth real damage to the earth Then Why doesn't everybody? You know advocate for nuclear energy and nuclear energy is clean Nuclear energy has no carbon footprint nuclear energy is unbelievably safe There have been fewer deaths in the nuclear power plants all around the world Then from windmills and solar planners never mind gas and coal and all this other stuff It's unbelievably safe unbelievably Uh, it's expensive because of all the massive regulations that exist so that nobody nobody wants to build a nuclear power plant in the united states Because government has made it so expensive But why doesn't everybody advocate for more research in nuclear power plants to lower the costs and to create Small nuclear power plants all around the world to produce cheap Efficient clean electricity. I mean if they advocated for that Then it would say okay, you know, maybe maybe there's something here But I don't trust their science when because I don't think it's really science when their solution is always Whatever the problem is the solution is Stop living Stop producing stop in the industrialization Shut down carbon shut down oil Shut down coal when these things are scientifically unbelievably good So I just don't buy the whole environmentalism. It's become a religion not a science. I'm not against Cleaning their environment for human beings I think there are plenty of mechanisms to do that with our massive regulations or a massive government institutions in order to enforce it um, I don't place the the the so-called I don't know Planet over the lives of human beings the planet is there so that I can live a better life And the only way human beings live and this is this would be my final point. Thanks for calling pink. It's really appreciated, but The the the the way human beings live and john I know you're holding and I'll probably get you after this break because let me make this point The way human beings survive as compared to any other animal Is that we use our minds To change the environment We figure out What is necessary for us to live a good life To not be exposed to the elements To be able to bring in food To be able to improve our condition To be able to for more and more human beings to be able to live and We do all this by using our minds to figure out how to change the environment so Most animals right all animals they need a place to live they you know, they find a cave They live in a cave That's what human beings did initially But then the cave was kind of cold and the fires were smelly and it was not a pleasant place to live So they went out of the cave and plus the sabertooth tiger lived in the cave and he was scary So they went out of the cave And we started building mud huts or wood huts or whatever right, but that required real intelligence We had to take mud and reshape our environment. We had to chop down trees and build something We are unique animal in the sense that we do this Right. We don't rely on food to keep ourselves warm. We rely on making fire. We rely on creating clothes. We rely on building homes Everything we do everything in your home right now Every single thing is a consequence of mining of cutting down trees of scooping up silicon from sand or whatever It all involves changing the environment for the sake of making human life better And that's what the planet is here for It's for us to exploit rationally exploit by the use of our mind In order to allow us as human beings as individual human to live better lives And we take science to understand the world around us so that we can exploit more Right, so a long long time ago. There used to be this black muck They used to be ooze out of the ground and it used to dramatically lower property prices Because it would smell and you couldn't do anything with it and it destroyed every cultural crops And it could it could light up I think on fire and it was just awful Until science discovered that we could take this black muck and refine it down to a million different products Almost everything in your room, wherever you are Has carbon fuels in it. It has oil in it, whether it's the plastics, whether it's some of the stuff they put on On the walls paint, paint is made from from oil You know whether it's component with any computer not to mention your car and your electricity and everything else So to demonize that's another sign that there's something wrong with the environmentalist movement To demonize this source this wonderful source But notice it used to be a past and it's the human mind that made it a resource To demonize this wonderful resource. 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I'm all for that But the environmentalism movement unfortunately and the and the other people behind this march have nothing to do with reason and rationality and You know the problem is that fox which is airing that which is that that clip And the rights republican party or whatever have also been anti science and don't represent reason and rationality They tend to represent faith and religion, which is the opposite of reason and rationality So what you get here is a is this alternative of two groups, and this is how we think about the world two groups Those who claim that pro-science, but a really undercutting science with environmentalism And those who are pro-faith and just a pro-science when it's convenient for them And there's no real pro-science movement I'm for science for understanding the way the world lives of applying reason and rationality to everything We do not only When it's politically convenient to do so not only When it does when it doesn't contradict You know some biblical statement. All right. If you want in on the conversation three one two six four two five six zero zero What do you think about the march for science? What do you think about science in general and about environmentalism three one two six four two five six zero zero left here from somebody who's out there marching or has been marching or from somebody who is A big earthy supporter come on call in three one two six four two five six zero zero and we're gonna go to john and i'm curious What john asked to say hey john how's it going? Good you're on how are you? I'm good. I'm good Good, uh, well the first and foremost and I want you to hear me out on this one first and I'll start by saying I'm extremely conservative and my views why always why on the right versus the left uh, and and And the thing that I don't understand is I don't understand Why it always has to be set up or why there has to be a schism involved in that? Uh an argument with environmentalism being for or against why it has to be a binary argument Why can't you be capitalist? Why can't you be conservative and why can't you still want to be? Saving the environment and I'll post to you this yeah in in the defense of humans and human Exploitation as you're trying to I guess put an argument for the uh putting forth or advocating science Versus the environment if we go on to pollute our earth in our environment Then that only ruins the environment and our planet for humans. I it kind of wrecks our cause So I agree with you why we can't be pro environmental and pro capitalist and pro conservative as well So I think we can be But that's not what this march is about and that's what these people are about But but I think we can be and this is the sense in which I think we can be if we realize that The environment is the human environment and the things that damage human beings Are not good We have a very good legal system to take care of this stuff If you pollute the river from which I'm drinking I sue you and we remedy the situation If you pollute the air that I am breathing I you know there's legal recourse for me against you if you you can't dump your garbage into buy backyard And indeed I believe that the more capitalist we are The more we emphasize private property The more all the land and the rivers and the lakes belong to individuals actual private property The cleaner they will be because we know in american legal system that you can't pollute my private property So if we if we will care about Clean air and clean water the best thing we should the the thing that we should value the most Is capitalism which means private property rights? We need to get the government out of the business Of owning rivers lakes vast quantities of land We need the government out of the business to try to regulate every little thing that we do And let us through negotiation through the legal system resolve disputes to minimize You doing something that harms me right or me doing something that harms somebody else That's how you get pro-freedom pro-capitalist consistent Protection of the human environment But when people go out and say look The earth is warming and we've decided and then we could argue the science and i'm not a scientist I'm not going to argue the science that it's carbon It's carbon emission and the solution is you have to stop driving your car We have to stop producing electricity with coal and natural gas and all these things that can't be right I mean i'm all for finding scientific solutions To cooling down the temperature of the earth if warming is really a problem How about sprinkling some stuff in the atmosphere? I don't know let's figure it out But the idea that you should stop living your kind of life that we should stop capitalism that we should stop progress Cannot be a solution To a problem any kind of environmental problem because at the end the environment is there for us to live in And if our standard of living is going to plummet so that we can save a few degrees increase in in warmth that's that's that's It can't be rational that can't be right the standard is human life the standard is individual human flourishing All right That music suggests that we're running out of time. Thanks john I mean, I agree with you science should not be political That's the most important point you should get out of this show science is not left Science is not right science is about the truth And you'll hear the truth right here on the Iran book show Stuck in traffic. 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Make your tax-deductible contribution now at iran.org slash support iron rand was a radical thinker whose philosophical novels challenge students to reconsider their views on fundamental issues The fountainhead atlas shrugged an anthem these works have become classics of american literature There never fail to engage young people and stimulate intense classroom discussion by offering these works for free to teachers The iron rand institute hopes to encourage greater awareness and understanding of rand's stimulating perspective If you're a teacher who would like iran's books in your classroom visit iron rand dot org This is at no cost to you go to iron rand dot org today 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of iran's atlas shrugged 12 years in the writing it is rand's master work Despite being published six decades ago the novel continues to gain recognition and profoundly influence business leaders Thought leaders and a growing number of political leaders its presence in today's culture cannot be denied The fascination with atlas shrugged persists because it grapples with the fundamental problems of human existence And presents radically new answers An updated cover for the mass market edition of the novel recently hit stores Order your copy today at amazon Whether you're an adoring fan who wants to add this new edition to your personal library Or someone who wants to read the book for the first time to see what all the fuss is about Pick up your copy of atlas shrugged today Order on amazon Intrigued inspired and possibly even angered Welcome back to the iran brook show on am 560 the answer So today we're talking about earth day and how the left has kind of stolen earth day To do a march on science when uh, they don't really even represent the march on they don't represent science The whole earth day thing i've talked about is is is a just a travesty and to associate earth day with science I mean that's just awful. Look I'm not a scientist and I don't have a strong opinion I have an opinion, but I don't have a strong opinion about the science behind the idea Of global warming. I just don't trust many of the advocates for this idea and I don't believe them I I have a hard time just believing them, but again, I i'm not a scientist I haven't evaluated the numbers the models the the science I just know that these people every all of their predictions have been wrong in the past So I find it harder to believe them when they predict stuff for the future Um, but The main thing the most important thing we need to do Is separate science from politics I mean If it's true that human activity You know, uh burning carbon is causing the earth to warm Then I would like a non-political answer about how fast is it happening What are the real dangers involved? What is the consequence to human life plant life the oceans everything else Is it the case that Florida is going to flood and if it does is that the end of the world? What exactly are the consequences of of what we're facing science? I want science And I want the scientists to be able to say look, we don't really know I mean, that's a good scientist when they look at a complex system like Like weather climate They're willing to say I don't know. I'm just not sure I mean these here's some probabilities. I'd like to see that And I'd like it to see divorced from politics from the democratic party or public party Or even what to do about it because then the second question is okay. What do we do about it? Well, we could just stop producing and making electricity and do all these things That seems like a really bad answer We could replace carbon based fuel with alternative energy Wait a minute about alternative energy or cost a huge amount of money There's no way to really replace all the carbon that we're using with alternative energy and Our standard of living would drop dramatically. We did that. That's not a good answer Let's list 10 answers, but scientifically not politically, but Scientifically and then used to decide the solution the standard of Human flourishing is this good for human life or bad for human life not for the planet For human life and it might turn out that even if the globe is warming even if the the the sea levels are rising It's better to leave it alone that that is the least costly For human life than any of the alternatives that we have so we'll buy more air conditioning So some people have to move to higher ground All right big deal But I'd like to see all of that analyzed rather than what we get Which is basically hysteria the world is ending. We are all gonna die And we need to we need to do something now and that something needs to be incredibly costly and incredibly destructive to individual human life All right, we got Sharon on the line and uh, I think she's gonna agree with me on some of this. Hey, Sharon. How's it going? Hi, I'm very nice. Thank you for taking my call. This is how I look at it I look at the left of being the command and control center where the reservoirs here the brown shirts Basically trying to discover themselves or disguise themselves in the color green What they want is centralized command and control to quote something that Nancy Pelosi said During the uh, I guess eruption of the obama care bill This is just something that americans will have to accept and this is problem You can have stalwarts on the far right who are also a dictatorial in that way But I've heard it mainly coming out of the left. We are dynamic As human beings and the earth is dynamic the oil basically is emitted from the center of the planet So there's nothing unnatural about the oil Neither is there anything unnatural about reusing it for our uses Well, and there's nothing unnatural about human beings. We are part of nature and it's amazing to me that on earth they They celebrate plants and they celebrate mud and they celebrate dirt But they don't celebrate human beings. They don't celebrate oil They don't celebrate our achievements aren't we part of nature aren't we an aspect of nature? And let me let me agree with you on this command and control. We used to call environmentalists They're like watermelons green on the outside red on the inside because it's interesting all those commies in the 60s They all turned environmentalists because they they learned that they could stop Progress and production and they could increase command and control and central planning more through environmentalism Than through any other means unfortunately That is true. They want to control the populace and this is the bottom line when they control the air you breathe and everything else I think that's right We do know how to basically improve our lot here And I just will mention something briefly What the bible does say we are the stewards over this planet and I think we're smart enough to know How to use the natural resources. So I don't see where it goes against nature I don't even see this false science that has even erupted from this far left and that's all it is It is transferring wealth from one pocket book someone else's wallet to someone else's wallet I mean, I agree with you. I think oops. I'm sorry. I disconnected you but that was accidentally. Sorry about that But I agree that that's what thereafter. I agree that we we can use science To change the environment to make our lives better and we can do it in a way That is not going to lead us to die. We're not that stupid We're not that ignorant and indeed it's science that what protects us from being too stupid and too ignorant So let's have real science not non partisan science I also have to mention just because it's me and and and When I hear the left wants to control our lives I you know, I I object because everybody wants to control our lives You think you think uh our CEO in charge our president Donald Trump doesn't want to control our lives. Sure. He does. He wants us to buy american I want to buy whatever the hell I want to buy. It's none of his business as president of the united states What I buy and whom I buy it for he wants to tell me who to employ who to invite to my home He wants to limit immigration. That's command and control. I don't want command and control The only thing government should do you've heard me say this many times is protect my individual rights And otherwise leave me alone You're listening. 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That's objectivistconferences.com See you at okon 2017 Harvey owns a building and wants to save money by making his heating and cooling system more energy efficient Ah, yes, but harvey's afraid of the cost and if he can get a return on his investment I am indeed plus he's nervous about disrupting the businesses that rent space in his building Harvey doesn't know what to do with an hvec system that's seen better days The air comfort problem solvers to the rescue Working as a team the air comfort professionals find simple solutions that make a huge impact on building efficiency and operating costs With minimal or no disruptions to building operations hvec upgrades and retrofits from air comfort can save thousands of dollars per year They save energy reduce maintenance and eliminate downtime and buildings with better energy ratings command higher rents and selling prices And make tenants happy get real solutions from the air comfort team of problem solvers Call 708-345-1900 or visit air comfort.com and start saving money today air comfort providing the right climate for business since 1935 Yaron brook executive director of the iron rand institute speaks to audiences around the world Promoting iron rands ideas and talks and books Now he's on your radio here on am 560 the answer So one of the issues these march for science people are making a big deal out of Is the funding cuts for science that the uh trump administration has suggested We don't know if it'll ever make their budget actual budget, but they've suggested And they're saying this is anti science And there's a sense in which I kind of agree with them, right? I mean, it's I think it's wrong for republicans to come in and defund Holy areas of science that don't they don't agree with And then they will promote areas of science. They do agree with them or democrats come. They'll do the opposite This is why I want a complete separation of science from government Science shouldn't be political science shouldn't have to rely on government grants Science shouldn't have to rely on which political parties in power science shouldn't have to rely On a political agenda on on on on political views Science should be funded by people who believe in science who love science who think science is beneficial It should be funded voluntarily by all of us I would send a check in to a science foundation if the government got got out of it Universities would fund science instead of building beautiful dorms Instead of paying administrators and and hiring hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of additional administrative They could they could use all that tuition money that they've got over the last few decades And fund more science Corporations would fund science Businesses would fund science as they used to do before the government basically monopolized the funding of science and took it all over Pharmaceutical companies would fund a lot of basic science Because there's a profit motive there. That's the way you get the drugs So I I don't worry About the funding of science what I'd like to see Is the government shrink the funding of science to as close to zero as possible, but at the same time Lower taxes to as low as possible And free up capital And make reduce the corporate income tax rate to zero Thus encouraging corporations to invest money So they could do things the government could do things to free us up Now in the meantime I do wonder whether cuts the science In and of itself Is the first thing that should be cut there's so many stupid things the government does There's so many wasteful Completely useless things the government does But and that they should be cut first I mean it's starting with government involvement in health care and government involvement with our time and the government involvement with With our savings the government involvement in in the in business and in regulations and all that all of that should be scrapped And and at the same time we should scrap the funding of science And move to a private funding of science model where the science has to stand on its own to feed It has to prove itself To somebody objective not to politicians not to bureaucrats Not to scientists motivated by politics Not a scientist motivated by pleasing the political class But to to people really who love science who care about science who want science Those are the people who will be funding the science and therefore we would get real science rather than political stuff we get today I'm not saying all science stays political, but there's too much of it And it's important Science is way way way like education way too important To leave to the government I want a government that only does one thing Protects my rights and military a police force a judiciary system that arbitrates disputes and otherwise Leaves us alone. 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