Some elements of the Bush Administration have been known to withdraw fundings from science research groups whose conclusions contradict the Administration's claims in environmental issues.
No argument here. The Bush administration is absolutely out to stifle knowledge.
Harvard president got canned after remarking that perhaps the reason so fewer females are in the fields of science than males is because of the differences in brain physiology... or something like that.
And he later acknowledged that this statement was unsupported by research or scientific evidence.
Smacking someone around for saying something stupid isn't the same as demanding total ignorance on a subject.
The US government traded some Japanese war criminals' freedoms for mountains of data on research in biological warfare. These warcrimes were forgotten for a very long time.
Not sure where knowledge is being stifled there. In fact, it looks like you're saying that something was sacrificed to
gain knowledge.
Even the scientific community from time to time rejects outright certain modifications in worldview.
Which is by no means the same as saying we shouldn't even investigate a subject.
So... don't know what to tell you. Most of these really don't hold up. But if your initial statement has been boiled back to "organized religion isn't out to stifle knowledge anymore than the Bush administration," we agree wholeheartedly.
"We had survived to turn on the History Channel
And ask our esteemed panel, Why are we alive? And here's how they replied:
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died."
-Andrew Bird
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