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During the days of Galileo, the
advancement of truth was obstructed by church dogma, it wasn't what
science said that mattered, it was what the church pronounced that
mattered. Today we have a similar situation. Political correctness,
a kind of ideological religion, has usurped scientific objectivity.
It's not truth that matters, it's what is politically correct. Two
noble institutions--the Smithsonian Institution and the National
Geographic Institute--decided against truth in favor of political
correctness. The Smithsonian tried to pressure its own forensic
scientist, world renown anthropologist Doug Owsley, and a few
cohorts, to withdraw their legal challenge to study the remains of
Kennewick Man, a nearly complete Caucasian skeleton found in the
Columbia River basin in 1996 that predated the Asiatic crossing of
the Bering Strait. Local Indian Tribes wanted to bury it as one of
their own as they had done on previous occasions. But no ancestral
connection could be made and the federal courts found in favor of
the scientists. The bones remain in custody of the Army Corps of
Engineers, a curious decision since the Corps destroyed the original
site where the skeleton was found. As for the duplicity of National
Geographic, in 2005 the editor let slip on the contents page that
the latest cat scan of King Tut's mummy showed that he was primarily
Caucasian. A couple of months later that editor "resigned." Nearly
all of academia know about Kennewick Man and King Tut but remain for
the most part silent. So much for science, history and truth. |
