Obama and Science

Unlike the author of this piece, I feel that Obama’s passion for science is a real plus.  I may be biased as the Penn Dems resident director/nerd, but a culture of anti-intellectualism is developing in this country that is going to do serious long term damage.  We have spent eight years relying on “gut instinct” and  “moral directives” and as a result this country is widely regarded as incompetent and immoral.  A little hard evidence would do this country good as it has in generations past.  Our strength has never been our gut instincts, but the unrivalled power of our science.  We devise technical solutions  to problems that baffle other nations.  It will be good to put a little more faith in our peerless scientific institutions.