LOUISIANA: “we don’t need no education”
The ironic juxtaposition of two opinion columns in Sundays
TP was striking. Mr. Robert Mann pointed
out that college education in Louisiana has suffered many setbacks, including
extreme funding cut-offs from Mr. Jindal.
Adjacent, Mr. Jarvis DeBerry stated that there is a paucity of attention
on preventing breast cancer. I wish to
point out that strengthening education is required for game-changing biomedical
advances.
For the past several years, Mr. Mann points out that for the
following public universities, grambling, LSU,
McNeese, Southern Nichols, stat funding is down 41, 29, 38, 44 percent,
respectively. From other source, Deglado
12.3 for several years. UNO laid off 130. Year after year, these institutions
have been cut and are expected to continue.
Many cancers, to some degree is a random process. Cancer genomes are massively scrambled, due
to acceleration of DNA damage. The “low hanging fruit” of smoking, immediate causes
have been identified. Eventually, scientists will be able to prevent random
events. But paradigm-shifting research can only take place in the context of
unfettered research by talented, well-trained scientists, who grow up from
bright young well educated children. The systematic dismantling of our education
system works against winning the war against cancer.
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