Duct Tape Blues

Isn't it ironic that the majority of conservative and independent Americans want science and technology to help them if the deadly avian flu mutates into human-to-human contagious form and yet conservatives feel have no issue with ignoring science when it clashes with AIDS, Intelligent design, and stem cells.
I guess they want their cake and eat it too.

My question is how many children from conservative families will become future scientists and engineers? I guess it will be up to those no-good-commie- pinko liberals to fill the gap within the scientific community to help save everyone's ass in the future.