Oh Dear: Who needs science ?

**Lucifer Box** · 29 June 2005, 12:00

Media Studies is where all the action is these days. Anyway, these scientists, eh, what do they know?

**SupremeSpod** · 29 June 2005, 12:04

That's what happens when a Scientist dares to disagree with a government department...

It won't happen again...

**expat** · 29 June 2005, 12:35

From the article:

Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), warned against getting into a "moral panic" when a university physics or chemistry department was threatened with closure, saying they were "19th-century" disciplines.

:rollin

**sasguru** · 29 June 2005, 13:46

Plenty of people do without Science. Take Chico for example.

**NumptyCorner** · 29 June 2005, 13:57

I think Science will win Big Brother

**WageSlave1** · 29 June 2005, 14:39

saying they were "19th-century" disciplines

This is indeed a dark day. First you aren't allowed to enjoy the stash of 70s Penthouse mags you inherited from your mate's father during a camping expedition in 1990 because the nation has no common sense and is in a moral panic, and then some plank with a position of responsibility announces that science is 19th century.

Hell in a hand-basket, hell in a hand-basket.

**John Galt** · 29 June 2005, 14:46

This does not bode well for the youth of today does it? They are undereducated now without losing vital science subjects from the curricullum. Someone was saying the other day that at English A' Level now you are NOT marked down for bad spelling

**NumptyCorner** · 29 June 2005, 14:52

This is excellent news for all those working in maths related jobs

**sasguru** · 29 June 2005, 14:56

I agree

Agree with Numpty. It only makes me want to deepen my already technical education. In the coming years we will form an elite priesthood dispensing wisdom to the masses

Oh Dear: Who needs science ?