I have a personal gripe with science that goes back many years. Don’t take me wrong, I respect science, I use science and I make sure my son studies science, but sometimes scientists just seem to go out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot. At one point every American boy knew three dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Triceratops, and the Brontosaurus. Some new more, but those were the base line three everybody knew and had plastic dinosaurs of. Then some scientist found out the Brontosaurus skeleton had been misassembled. What to they do? They rename it. One of three everyone knows and they change it. To what I don’t know, my plastic one still says Brontosaurus..

So now scientists are getting together to decide if Pluto isn’t really a planet. For the love of pete guys don’t mess up my solar system posters, just call it an honorary planet and move on. I am not asking you to fudge the books, just give it an honorary status like all those honorary PHDs out there. You get to be accurate, I get to keep my solar systems posters. Hey, I wonder if this whole science thing isn’t just a ploy to sell new plastic dinosaurs and solar system posters…

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