I just had the misfortune to watch The Day After Tomorrow on my DVR.  I wonder if the screenwriters for this movie are posters to the DU--they sure seem to blame all the world's ills on the US, and so do the makers of this movie.

It was bad enough when Roland Emmerich made Godzilla into a giant marine iguana.  I mean, the Godzilla mythos is that a dinosaur type creature was mutated by atomic bombs into a radiation breathing, Tokyo stomping monster.  Emmerich made Godzilla a marine iguana mutated by French atomic tests.  Now everyone knows I don't like French politicians; but my Uncle Hiawatha lives over there with his wife and son, and I don't wish ill on the French (well, not usually).

Emmerich seems to decide every few years that someone is to blame for all the world's ills, and this time, it is the US.  Before, it was space aliens (and scientists--Brent Spiner's role in Independence Day), then the French (and scientists--like in previous movies, he treats them like they are really inept), and now us (and in this one, he just gives up and really hates scientists--portraying all of them as raving moonbats).  Why does the guy hate everybody, especially scientists?

I think Emmerich must have failed science in grade school and decided all scientists were part of a cult trying to keep him from succeeding.  Emmerich doesn't realize that most scientists think the only experiment Emmerich has ever successfully completed was how to mix his party favors for Hollywood parties.

On a side note:  The only group of scientists who are generically moonbats are anthropologists; speaking as another type of social scientist (an economist), I always believe the anthropologists who studied ancient Egypt were okay guys.  Most of the rest of them suck.  Especially the ones who study Native Americans.  They treat Native Americans like we aren't currently alive.  Unlike some people, I don't believe Kennewick Man is a Native American (he's too damn ugly), but I don't believe all of us are museum pieces either.  I don't want to find out the great-grandpa who taught my dad how to hunt rabbits with home-chipped arrow points is in someone's exhibit.  Hell, I don't want to find out that his arrow points are in someone's damn exhibit either.

Anthros want to have it both ways; they want to tell me how to treat other cultures, but reserve for themselves the right to objectify my anscestors as dead, stuffed fish.   Cultures are living, active organizations; hopefully mutating in a positive way, but have to fixed when they turn into a cancer.  Anthropologists want the culture, good or bad, to be there for them to study--too bad for those people who die, but there is always a price for their academic freedom.  Pity the poor suckers who pay that price.