The Death of Science

by Lion Larry Leguire

Scientific Advisor, Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation

Have you pondered life without science?

I have.

Have you ever decided not to do an important study on childhood eye disease because of red tape?

I have.

Have you ever given-up on a field of research because an animal review board wanted you to anesthetize a lizard before you chopped his head off with a guillotine?

I have.

Have you ever terminated an important study because you could not accept the Institutional Review Board’s conditions for doing a study?

I have.

Have you written grant proposals over and over for 10 years for a three-year grant for one study?

I have

Have you seen a human consent form grow from a ½ page, 20 years ago, to more than a dozen today?

I have.

Have you spent nine months of paperwork to do a one-week study?

I have.

Have you pondered life without science?

I have.

Have you thought about the enormous amount of hours, wasted, because of a new burden on researchers called "Clinical Trials" registration?

I have.

Have you seen important science delayed, equipment destroyed and lab animals released into the environment by antiscience animal extremists?

I have.

Have you seen a promising medical doctor leave an area of science because of the burden of trying to get animal study approval to use rats?

I have.

Have you seen science distorted by creationists who would rather deceive than believe in science?

I have.

Have you pondered life without science?

I have.

Have you seen more and more people chose "alternative medicine" without any scientific support?

I have.

Have you seen the FDA delay an important drug not because of science but because of politics?

I have.

Have you seen science stifled when it conflicts with the politics of special interest groups?

I have.

Have you seen the federal government refuse to support important research on recreational drugs taken by 1 in 4 youths?

I have.

Have you seen the federal government promote programs

 contrary to scientific findings?

I have.

Have you seen school boards approve lesson plans that distort science to indoctrinate children into ignorance?

I have.

The death of science?

No, but I can see the pallbearers from here.

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