About

 

The Crow Manifesto is dedicated to helping bring perspective to the importance of science, technology, engineering, math, and the environment in America. Through a combination of personal stories and historical research, it seeks to help people understand what America was like, what happened, and what it’s like now.

For decades, advances in these fields have been key to America’s success.

And these advances have been driven for more than a hundred years in large part by government-supported efforts such as the Bureau of Reclamation, Manhattan Project, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Institutes of Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Department of Energy.

Beginning in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’,” however, all of this began to change. Reagan’s remarks were the seed from which attacks have grown on these fields and their government sponsorship. Today, the scope and scale of these attacks are unprecedented in American history.

The attacks pose a grave risk to continued American success.

The mission of the Crow Manifesto is to be authentic and truthful in its stories about these issues. Hopefully, they will entertain and educate, too. In this spirit, personal experiences will be recounted as faithfully as possible, and any accompanying facts will be supported by references to sources of information.

In this era of “Do Your Own Research,” you are encouraged to use those references to formulate an informed opinion about the subject matter written about here. As the American poet Edgar Allan Poe wrote in 1845, “Believe nothing that you hear, and only half that you see.”

Thanks for reading.