Putting Ideology Ahead of Progress

[damntexdem]

More evidence of how anti-science RW Xians can be.

From Texas Freedom Network Insider:

http://tfninsider.org/

"Texas voters will consider 11 amendments to the state constitution on Nov. 3. The Texas Freedom Network has taken no official position on any of the measures. But we could have predicted what far-right groups, such as David Barton’s WallBuilders, would say about one: putting more resources into university research. They don’t like it.

Proposition 4 is an amendment that would establish a “national research university fund” that would help more Texas universities become national research centers. Supporters argue that such research is critical to the future of the Texas and national economies.

But in an e-mail to activists last week, Barton’s WallBuilders organization opposed the amendment, arguing that such spending is “non-essential” during bad economic times. Universities should focus on teaching, not research, the group says. And then:

'ree enterprise already provides extensive and productive private research whereas government funded research often results in questionable projects and endeavors that would never withstand free-market scrutiny or competition.'

That statement goes well beyond whether voters should or shouldn’t approve this amendment. It attacks the very idea that public universities should be involved in research at all. This kind of ideological nonsense is precisely what we’ve come to expect from far-right pressure groups.

[BolivarianHero]

1. Yeah horrible nonsense...

Like the Internet, the Space Program, and the Polio Vaccine.

BOO GOVERNMENT!!!!

[AllentownJake]

2. These idiots understand

That the reason why the Greco-Roman world couldn't make the next step technologically was because no one needed the steam engine because slavery was an acceptable labor practice.