Scientific Progress

Re “Advisors Put Under a Microscope,” Dec. 23: It comes as no surprise that an administration pursuing medieval policies (subjugation of women, execution of nonviolent offenders) behaves as the medieval church did toward its scientists. But wait: Aren’t these the same people who are so excited about developing robot drones and space lasers to fight their holy crusades?

You can’t have it both ways; scientific progress depends on the ability of scientists to work outside the bounds of political and religious dogma. Surely the Republicans are as aware as I am that Hitler never developed the atomic bomb due to his rejection of the “Jewish pseudoscience,” Einsteinian physics.

Jason MacCannell

Davis