德克萨斯州 vs. 北卡罗来纳州 科学愚蠢的铁笼赛

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北卡罗来纳州注意了——德克萨斯州不会让你轻易夺走“在愚蠢的政治破坏科学方面最可耻的州”的头衔。 尽管北卡罗来纳州最近一年来在科学相关的立法精神错乱方面取得了令人印象深刻的连胜——从立法反对海洋本身,到将科学家从科学委员会中移除,再到放弃诸如计数等科学基本要素——德克萨斯州不会不战而降。

看看国会议员拉马尔·史密斯,他提出了一项提交给美国众议院的法案,该法案将要求科学研究通过政治倾向测试。 史密斯在这项法案提出前一周就出了名,当时他致信美国国家科学基金会(NSF),要求解释一些似乎不符合他严苛标准的科学研究。

我不知道史密斯大学主修什么,但是他承认自己大学一年级的物理就学得很吃力,并且也表达了他对气候变化的怀疑。 他毕业于耶鲁大学——在我看来,耶鲁大学似乎需要对此做出一些解释。


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我不确定我告诉你这些是作为警告,还是作为一种安慰自己的方式,让自己相信北卡罗来纳州的立法者并非每时每刻都是这个国家最疯狂的人,或者仅仅是为了在写这篇文章的过程中远离苏格兰威士忌。 无论如何,我已经告诉你们了。

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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