Why Isn’t Rick Perry Being Asked Very Many Science Questions?
The prospect of a Rick Perry Presidency frightens me, and I think I’ve figured out why: I’m just not sure whether he knows how to prove any Sobolev embedding theorems, or even accepts their correctness. We don’t even know to which Sobolev space he thinks Wk,p does belong. Imagine such a man sitting in the Oval Office, let alone across the negotiation table from Angela Merkel!
But not only that. Does Rick Perry accept or deny the numerical stability of vortex methods for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations? Does he affirm affirmatively that satellite measurements of energy density can be accurately interpreted as indicative of surface temperature readings according to the Stefan-Boltzmann power law? Will he go on record agreeing that quantum mechanical ‘wavefunction collapse’ is an outdated metaphor, a convenient but erroneous mischaracterization of what is, in reality, simply a state of our single universe revealing itself out of all the other universes in the multiverse? Does he think P equals NP?
Shockingly, these and so many other crucial, basic scientific questions the correct answers to which we have the right to expect of any politician aren’t even being asked of Rick Perry by our lapdog corporate media. It seems clear to me that our Fourth Estate is either falling down on the job, or are fully in the tank for the Rethuglican Party crooks.
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The science question Perry flunks that should really concern you is his inability to distinguish between a burro and a burrow. Unemployment is up in Texas to a 40-year high, and Perry’s bragging about it. You might want to ask him simple math and calendar questions. Texas is second in the nation with hungry children, with more than a million kids going to bed hungry each night — more than several African nations, more than Cuba. You might want to ask him if he knows what Jesus said about children.
For that matter, you may want to ask him if he can find his own burro with both hands. I’ll wager he’ll look at you perplexed.
Virtue is its own reward, but stupid punishes everyone within grenade distance.
Well, I’m convinced. (By your SCIENCE).
I’m unconvinced of, or by, your sincerity.
Perceptive.