science blinded

It's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres're in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And hit me with technology. (“She Blinded Me with Science”, Thomas Dolby)

One of Florida's largest counties will stop adding fluoride to the water supply before the end of the year, commissioners decided this week, in a move that some opponents say was influenced more by tea party propaganda than it was by health or financial considerations.

"We're going to pay a price for this for generations to come," Ken Welch, the commissioner, said,reported USA Today, adding that activists "hijacked" the conversation. (msnbc.com)

It is just Fluoride, right? No big deal that form over 70 years a majority of cities in this nation have been adding it to their water to help stop people from getting cavities. No big deal that the American Dental Association has done the research and the studies proving that the addition of fluoride to water is the cheapest and best way to keep people from developing cavities and thus helping their dental hygiene. Its just science right? But then science was created by proponents of big government to keep government big and intrusive in our lives. It is just politics and governing has little to do with fact or fair but more with fiction and fear and oh yeah staying in office.

The medical community issued swift criticism Tuesday after Rep. Michele Bachmann dragged the safety of the human virus papillommavirus(HPV) into the political spotlight, reigniting the controversy over the risks and necessity of vaccinating children.

"A mother told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter," Bachmann said. "There is no second chance for these little girls if there is any dangerous consequences to their bodies." (abc news)

It is just the HPV vaccine, right? There is absolutely no scientific validity to this statement. Since the vaccine has been introduced, more than 35 million doses have been administered, and it has an excellent safety record." It is just science, right? But then science was created by proponents of a big government who like to poke you prod you and perform all kinds of experiments on you to keep you docile and a clone and keep you from running away from big government. It is just politics, right? And so what if it keeps you from making a sensible choice in the health and safety of you or your kids. And what do politicians have to with the quality of your life as long as the quality of their career keeps flourishing.

Yesterday, Rick Perry commented "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools, because I figured you're smart enough to figure out which one is right." It is just creationism, right? The U.S. Supreme Court has said that teaching creationism in public schools is unconstitutional because it amounts to the endorsement of religion…This, of course, assumes that creationism is "another theory," a position rejected by the scientific community and implicitly rejected by the science standards themselves (which state clearly that theories must rely on "natural" explanations, not supernatural phenomena like divine creation). (politifact).

It is just science right? But then science demands facts, sources standards it looks at the core not the emotion, the substance not the fluff, the reality not the ruminations. It permits big government to take God out of our classrooms to endorse non dogmatic thinking, permits brainwashing away from all things holy. It is just politics, right? And so what if it keeps you from understanding the world in which we all live and share a life. So what if it stops you from experimenting, asking seeking. So what if it makes you travel down a road leading to only a dead end. I can still pursue my road and leave you behind.

It is just America 2011 where fact is useless; fear is rampant, conjecture primary and denial potent. It is just American politics 2011 where religion is high jacked, truth sabotaged, honesty ignored, and insincerity prevalent. It is just Americans in 2011 where the fringe is an accepted norm, science a taboo, insincerity a priority and disregard for any standards or norm accepted. It is all of that and a scary reminder to all of us who really care how contempt, paranoia, and hate may prevail leading us to an America in 2012 of chaos and confusion. It is just the way of the world, right? Science blinds when it shed an honest light on the world.