-It's Sue-

I'm not sure this slide into ingnorance is anything different then it was in the late 1800's when you had the start of electricity, mesmerism, mediums, and phrenology.

I think we go through phases with science being accepted and then not. Saddly we are on a downswing and science is being questioned and pseudo science is poping up left-right-and center.

I think part of the problem is that science pushes us forward and when it reaches the peak of it's upswing it's caused so many changes that society starts having problems dealing, and you get a push-back effect that says 'slow down, we want to go back, don't change things anymore'

This goes on until there is a push the opposite direction... and usually occurs once society has accepted the changes science has brought to society.

The trick is to not loose all the scientists during a valley... or the valley becomes much longer, as we have to start some lines of research anew.

I think the recent push that science has made in the biology feilds has a lot of people uneasy. And until it's understood by the population better you are going to have a lot of crazy come from the voices of those who don't understand it.

The computer jump didn't have as much misinformation because a person could touch it, use it, and it had a very physical manifestation of the science that created it. The new forms of biology aren't as readily accessible to the public - so more folks are scared of it.