I watched a repeat of the PBS science program NOVA on one of the local public television channels. The show was about the most recent Shuttle repair flight to the Hubble Telescope. Fascinating stuff, really. Those guys were doing repairs that were thought to have been impossible and they used some pretty ingenious gizmos (look up the "fastener capture plate" if you're curious).
What caught my eye, though, was the list of sponsors. One of the big sponsors of the show was one of the two princes of evil, David H. Koch. In case you're drawing a blank, he and his older brother, Charles, are the clowns who have been funding the Tea Party. They have been as anti-science as all get-out, they are two of the major funders into the Wingnut attack on science.
So why is this clown sponsoring a science television show? Wouldn't that be sort of like Alferd Packer underwriting the promotion of veganism?
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Thank you for spelling Alfie's name correctly. Most do not. Alfie is the namesake for the grill and cafeteria in the Student Union Building at the University of Colorado, and for many years was the site of a BBQ rib eating contest. I won that contest in 1969.
ReplyDeleteIt's because they need the Hubble to see Niburu as it approaches. So that they can determine when to go into their shelters...
ReplyDeleteI've thought all along that the anti-science shams only disavow science when it supports EPA regs, etc., which expose and cause them to pay more for their anti-earth policies.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, most of that money crowd have more than a few bucks invested in scientific ventures that will eventually (they believe) be even more lucrative. And if you follow this thought through to its logical conclusion, you realize that it's another benefit of defunding public endeavors: private interests will eventually own all the research facilities and patents, etc., for the inventions of the future.
Thanks for staying on top of this story. It's a dirty job, but someone has got to do it.