The war on science and research was a dictatorship that set back the quest for knowledge, action and wisdom. Not for any rightious values of an antique religion but for political points with a notion that stem cell research was somehow equated with an abortion. The editing of global climate enabled another decade of oil dominence.

The damage to the quest for science reached down to an entire generation of children. Instead of anthropolgy and archeology and geology many fo them were indoctrinated with creationism and and a 6,000 year old universe.

I am glad that this damage was briefly mentioned in the inauguration address by Barak Obama.


Don, Watcing the inauguration again tonight I saw how embarrassed Bush senior was when Barak said "those days are surely gone".
Jr. felt so isolated he tried to strke up converseations with guards too the point Laura had to pull him away to allow all the people behind to eagerly exit the cold.

Art
There is much truth in what you say but the total ineptness of W belies that he let it happen more than he made it happen. If you want to believe in a globalist agenda to destroy populations if not by war and pestilence but by the economy, I would not disuade you.
The failure of global Population control is still the greatest unmentioned threat to this planet.