OT weather

[Chong Yu Meng]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> When I was a kid I wanted to be a scientist. Now I'm glad I didn't. As 
> science is, for all practical purposes, dead. It has been borged by 
> politics.
>
> The scientific method gave us "the enlightenment" and several 
> centuries of amazing progress, but like the American republic it has 
> proven to be a failure. A passing fad. Unsustainable. Well, it was a 
> good try anyway.


I thought the article was preposterous! Anybody who thinks that way 
hasn't seen how the weather has changed in Southeast Asia ! It's hotter 
now than I remember it when I was a boy.

Anyway, I believe the "scientific method" isn't to blame -- science will 
always be co-opted by the military and politics. You can't stop science 
just because other people will use it for less than noble causes. A 
proper approach, in my view, is to use it to solve problems, and protest 
illegal and/or unethical use of it. Not ban it altogether.

Just my 2  cents.

pascal chong