The following short quotes are from Science Left Behind - Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Science Left. If you get this book, you'll need to clear your schedule for a few hours because this book is very easy to read, but hard to put down!
"Global food production is an issue of immense importance, say progressives. We agree. Science can provide the solution to this problem if progressives would just get out of the way." Page 59
"Thankfully, science may be a few decades away from making livestock farms obsolete. One day, scientists may mass-produce meat in a laboratory on a large scale. In vitro meat, as it is called, is a very promising technological advance. Although synthetic meat may sound nasty, it certainly isn't any worse than the process that put a hot dog on your plate." - Page 67
"What is with the public's fascination with birds? They are little more than disease-infested flying tree rats - scientifically, we advise you to avoid pidgeon droppings like the plague." - Page 75
"People have been preaching 'peak-oil' - the moment when the oil supply begins to dry up - since 1974. Those who worry about peak oil are bound to right eventually, so we need to be researching a suitable replacement now." - Page 93
"Global food production is an issue of immense importance, say progressives. We agree. Science can provide the solution to this problem if progressives would just get out of the way." Page 59
"Thankfully, science may be a few decades away from making livestock farms obsolete. One day, scientists may mass-produce meat in a laboratory on a large scale. In vitro meat, as it is called, is a very promising technological advance. Although synthetic meat may sound nasty, it certainly isn't any worse than the process that put a hot dog on your plate." - Page 67
"What is with the public's fascination with birds? They are little more than disease-infested flying tree rats - scientifically, we advise you to avoid pidgeon droppings like the plague." - Page 75
"People have been preaching 'peak-oil' - the moment when the oil supply begins to dry up - since 1974. Those who worry about peak oil are bound to right eventually, so we need to be researching a suitable replacement now." - Page 93
