Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The War on Chemistry.

So now chemistry sets are becoming restricted as they are deemed undoubtedly to be the tools of terrorists.
This is getting absurd. Especially after all the discussion about Intelligent Design being imposed on school curriculums . . .
Or the continued federal prosecution of the artist Steven Kurtz for having the test tubes he used in his art projects spotted . . .
It would appear that a trend has been developed by various agencies of the American government to declare science, or at least amateur versions of it, to be an enemy of the state.

2 comments:

Pete said...

I know Alex is very familiar with this 1999 article, I may have rambled on about at some point to anyone of you.
Here's a link to an old Wired magazine article by Bill Joy, a head scientist at Bell Labs (?).
"Knowledge enabled destruction" is where it's at, as far as death and destruction goes.
In fact now I'm sure I've blathered about this before, so I'll shut up now.

Pete said...

Congratulations on your link heavy post, by the way. The infopocalypse awaits. *hic*