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In reply to the discussion: For some people, there are only two good kinds of science - Climate and Evolution [View all]etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)7. i have posted links to this article multiple times (it is from 2012)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antiscience-beliefs-jeopardize-us-democracy/?page=2
It remains a good read
Today's denial of inconvenient science comes from partisans on both ends of the political spectrum. Science denialism among Democrats tends to be motivated by unsupported suspicions of hidden dangers to health and the environment. Common examples include the belief that cell phones cause brain cancer (high school physics shows why this is impossible) or that vaccines cause autism (science has shown no link whatsoever). Republican science denialism tends to be motivated by antiregulatory fervor and fundamentalist concerns over control of the reproductive cycle. Examples are the conviction that global warming is a hoax (billions of measurements show it is a fact) or that we should teach the controversy to schoolchildren over whether life on the planet was shaped by evolution over millions of years or an intelligent designer over thousands of years (scientists agree evolution is real). Of these two forms of science denialism, the Republican version is more dangerous because the party has taken to attacking the validity of science itself as a basis for public policy when science disagrees with its ideology.
It remains a good read
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For some people, there are only two good kinds of science - Climate and Evolution [View all]
FrodosPet
Aug 2014
OP
Inability to separate science and ethics/economics is a huge problem on the left.
NuclearDem
Aug 2014
#5
Make a choice about whether or not the science is valid, just as the science is valid for
ChisolmTrailDem
Aug 2014
#14
I don't think you do. But people who lie and distort as a fear tactic..absolutely!
FrodosPet
Aug 2014
#21
Some people here seem to think that "science" means "strawmen". Deepak Chopra also claims to be just
Chathamization
Aug 2014
#19