Reply #7: They are working under the theory that scientists are just like anybody else. [View All]

[John Gauger]

The implication is that the scientists just make stuff up for political reasons. If scientists are politically motivated, then their findings can be dismissed without having to go through the mess of actually disproving their theories.

They want us to be stupid. They don't want us to have critical thinking skills. It makes it easy for them to feed us their conservative schlock. That book is one of a series of conservative hack jobs. There are other books about the Middle East, Islam, American history, and capitalism. They makes claims such as early Americans treated the Indians well and that the Crusades were good because, among other reasons, it brought about mercantilism, which of course was the precursor of god's own ideology, capitalism. They say that Saudi Arabia is good and Iran is bad, because, well, Dubya says so. And they are extremely Christian-centric. The Middle East one says that Persia was good because Cyrus the Great returned the Jewish elders to Israel. An empire which existed in one form or another for hundreds of years, and it is automatically good because of one small favor that one man did to a small handful of minorities who had been dislocated thirty years earlier. But this action was praised in the bible so that makes the empire good. Never mind that it was done out of expedience: returning Persianized Jews, who were raised in Babylon and loyal to the emperor, to Israel and putting them charge made ruling the empire easier.