It is not properly subjective, and does not respect the value of all diverse points of view, with added weight to those who have been completely wrong, thoroughly discredited, silenced or silent in the past.

Therefore it must be rejected, on the well-settled principle of disparate impact. The failure of women and “minorities” (ethnic groups present as a large percentage of the population, but dismal failures despite every conceivable advantage) to achieve Nobel stature in the sciences may not be attributed to lack of competence, but is, instead, proof positive that science is mis-construed as being derived from fact and logic.
Science, all science, is subjective, relative, personal, volatile, and interpretive. If we all say so, it has become true.

It’s not the future, it’s the present – just ask Larry Summers where his job went.

(Denise) So he wants more of Australia’s trees cut down to supply the paper shopping bags?

Our Minister of the Environment, a few weeks ago, made an astonishing maths statement/claim. Before being elected he was a rock and roll singer leading the ‘Midnight Oil’ group. That is a bit of a slur on good old rockers; he was a head-banging loon with gyrations on stage that insulted spastics with his parodies. Amazing who gets into Parliament here in Oz. His social ‘message’ speciality as a wailer/howler was just as jumbled and inarticulate then as now. Except now he had added innumerate too.

He is obsessed with plastic shopping bags and wants them banned. He rushed through signing the Kyoto Agreement ratification tout suite but that was just a side dish to his self-anticipated Main Course.

British MPs have more interesting fetishes, such as wearing stockings and suspenders (garter belts) and lacy knickers under their suits and visiting rude ladies for hire. American ones might focus on automatic weapons in home armouries, although some seem to be becoming more British in part by the day. French politicians all have mistresses, even the women ones. But Peter Garrett orgasms over plastic bags.

He stated that Australia gets through 4 billion plastic bags per annum with a combined weight of 220 million tons going eventually into our waste disposal sites. Every year. Whew, what a impact on the Environment! What a scandal.

It took a week before a newspaper critic was alerted to the maths by a reader; presumably one who paid attention in class. The rest of the media simply repeated the Minister’s claims as nauseam for the week.

Envision if you will the daily grind of housewives (oh, and house husbands, of course) doing the weekly shopping and lugging these immensly weighty plastic shopping bags each with a small packet of frozen peas. And each adult (approx 10 million) in Australia struggling with over twenty-two tons, just of the empty shopping bags each year. No wonder the food has all gone Lite and we all need friggin’ SUVs. It is small wonder we all don’t have Lorries in the driveway.

affirmative action laws always seek to apply numerical equality to outcomes by disregarding individuals’ natural tendencies, inherent strengths, obvious talents and the original principles and protections of law these same lawmakers swore to protect and preserve, as contained w/in documents such as the u.s. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

even more “innumerable” failed social engineering experiments followed by even more government handouts won’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse, madam. it will only slow our scientific development, and aid our enemies in overtaking us in the world marketplace, thereby making us all the poorer for the doing.

but that is like a gazillion years away, right?