The "science" is fixed!!!

Bush was a great Scientist.

To you I'm sure he was.

If you do not know I am talking about Vannevar Bush what do you know about science.

Salon | 21st: Technocracy in America

The picture of Bush that emerges from "Endless Frontier" is more than a little contradictory. He hated central authority, but reached his professional apogee wielding state power. He was a Yankee Republican who swore by the free market. But at the same time he did more than any other single person to ensure that the federal government got into the business of funding basic scientific research on a massive scale. He was deeply suspicious of mass democracy, seeing "populism and the widening participation of citizens in the machinery of government as a recipe for decline" and "favoring rule by the well-to-do and highly educated." But he also worshipped at the altar of the individual, and constantly worried that the rise of big business would swamp the little man, the inventor working at home in his garage.

Bush not only helped orchestrate the rise of the military-industrial-academic complex, he personally symbolized all of its interconnections. He co-founded Raytheon, one of the nation's largest defense contractors. He was a professor of electrical engineering and an administrator at MIT, which, mainly through his own efforts, became the largest academic recipient of federal science research funding. He was the president of the Carnegie Institute, a think tank that also benefited from government funding. And finally, as director of the Office of Scientific and Research Development during World War II, he personally supervised the development of the most awesome weapon of mass destruction yet produced -- the atomic bomb

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Bush was a great Scientist.

To you I'm sure he was.

If you do not know I am talking about Vannevar Bush what do you know about science.

Salon | 21st: Technocracy in America

The picture of Bush that emerges from "Endless Frontier" is more than a little contradictory. He hated central authority, but reached his professional apogee wielding state power. He was a Yankee Republican who swore by the free market. But at the same time he did more than any other single person to ensure that the federal government got into the business of funding basic scientific research on a massive scale. He was deeply suspicious of mass democracy, seeing "populism and the widening participation of citizens in the machinery of government as a recipe for decline" and "favoring rule by the well-to-do and highly educated." But he also worshipped at the altar of the individual, and constantly worried that the rise of big business would swamp the little man, the inventor working at home in his garage.

Bush not only helped orchestrate the rise of the military-industrial-academic complex, he personally symbolized all of its interconnections. He co-founded Raytheon, one of the nation's largest defense contractors. He was a professor of electrical engineering and an administrator at MIT, which, mainly through his own efforts, became the largest academic recipient of federal science research funding. He was the president of the Carnegie Institute, a think tank that also benefited from government funding. And finally, as director of the Office of Scientific and Research Development during World War II, he personally supervised the development of the most awesome weapon of mass destruction yet produced -- the atomic bomb

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