I slam Scientific American in these fora, what, 2 days ago? and here I am quoting from them. Oh well, when they're right they're right.
Conservatives have no monopoly on the stupid:
The Liberals' War on Science - Scientific American
And here's one from Reason Magazine:
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's - Reason.com
The only proof anyone needs that liberals are as anti-scientific as anyone who came down the pike is in Whole Foods, where the most incredible pseudoscientific claims are being made to sell stuff, and progressives just eat it up:
Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience - The Daily Beast
I slam Scientific American in these fora, what, 2 days ago? and here I am quoting from them. Oh well, when they're right they're right.
Conservatives have no monopoly on the stupid:
The Liberals' War on Science - Scientific American
And here's one from Reason Magazine:
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's - Reason.com
The only proof anyone needs that liberals are as anti-scientific as anyone who came down the pike is in Whole Foods, where the most incredible pseudoscientific claims are being made to sell stuff, and progressives just eat it up:
Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience - The Daily Beast
I slam Scientific American in these fora, what, 2 days ago? and here I am quoting from them. Oh well, when they're right they're right.
Conservatives have no monopoly on the stupid:
The Liberals' War on Science - Scientific American
And here's one from Reason Magazine:
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's - Reason.com
The only proof anyone needs that liberals are as anti-scientific as anyone who came down the pike is in Whole Foods, where the most incredible pseudoscientific claims are being made to sell stuff, and progressives just eat it up:
Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience - The Daily Beast
I slam Scientific American in these fora, what, 2 days ago? and here I am quoting from them. Oh well, when they're right they're right.
Conservatives have no monopoly on the stupid:
The Liberals' War on Science - Scientific American
And here's one from Reason Magazine:
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's - Reason.com
The only proof anyone needs that liberals are as anti-scientific as anyone who came down the pike is in Whole Foods, where the most incredible pseudoscientific claims are being made to sell stuff, and progressives just eat it up:
Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience - The Daily Beast
I slam Scientific American in these fora, what, 2 days ago? and here I am quoting from them. Oh well, when they're right they're right.
Conservatives have no monopoly on the stupid:
The Liberals' War on Science - Scientific American
And here's one from Reason Magazine:
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's - Reason.com
The only proof anyone needs that liberals are as anti-scientific as anyone who came down the pike is in Whole Foods, where the most incredible pseudoscientific claims are being made to sell stuff, and progressives just eat it up:
Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience - The Daily Beast
We are well aware of the Republican war on science from the eponymous 2006 book (Basic Books) by Chris Mooney, and I have castigated conservatives myself in my 2006 book Why Darwin Matters (Henry Holt) for their erroneous belief that the theory of evolution leads to a breakdown of morality. A 2012 Gallup poll found that “58 percent of Republicans believe that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years,” compared with 41 percent of Democrats. A 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 81 percent of Democrats but only 49 percent of Republicans believe that Earth is getting warmer. Many conservatives seem to grant early-stage embryos a moral standing that is higher than that of adults suffering from debilitating diseases potentially curable through stem cells. And most recently, Missouri Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin gaffed on the ability of women's bodies to avoid pregnancy in the event of a “legitimate rape.” It gets worse.
The left's war on science begins with the stats cited above: 41 percent of Democrats are young Earth creationists, and 19 percent doubt that Earth is getting warmer. These numbers do not exactly bolster the common belief that liberals are the people of the science book. In addition, consider “cognitive creationists”—whom I define as those who accept the theory of evolution for the human body but not the brain. As Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker documents in his 2002 book The Blank Slate (Viking), belief in the mind as a tabula rasa shaped almost entirely by culture has been mostly the mantra of liberal intellectuals, who in the 1980s and 1990s led an all-out assault against evolutionary psychology via such Orwellian-named far-left groups as Science for the People, for proffering the now uncontroversial idea that human thought and behavior are at least partially the result of our evolutionary past.
I slam Scientific American in these fora, what, 2 days ago? and here I am quoting from them. Oh well, when they're right they're right.
Conservatives have no monopoly on the stupid:
The Liberals' War on Science - Scientific American
And here's one from Reason Magazine:
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's - Reason.com
The only proof anyone needs that liberals are as anti-scientific as anyone who came down the pike is in Whole Foods, where the most incredible pseudoscientific claims are being made to sell stuff, and progressives just eat it up:
Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience - The Daily Beast
The Pew Research Center finds modest differences in views about vaccination—34 percent of Republicans, 33 percent of independents, and 22 percent of Democrats believe parents should have final say on vaccination—while we know from anecdotes that vaccine rejection is present in conservative religious communities (like the Amish in Ohio) as well as in crunchy college-town communes like Boulder, Colorado. In fact, the available data shows stability in anti-vaccination views across ideology—neither side is substantially more likely than the other to hold anti-vaccine beliefs.
All of which raises a question: When is an anti-science belief political? At the risk of tautology, it’s when it becomes an agenda item for the party in question. Neither vaccine skepticism nor its cousin, GMO skepticism, is a particular Republican or Democratic problem, because neither party advances policies or agendas around either concern. (Although, if either issue developed a distinct political constituency, that could happen, which is one critical reason we don’t want vaccination to become part of the partisan landscape.) By contrast, something like climate skepticism is a Republican problem—distinct from other anti-science beliefs—because of its huge currency in actual Republican politics. Sure, both parties have members with anti-science beliefs. But it’s the GOP that’s elevated a few of those beliefs to the party platform.
I slam Scientific American in these fora, what, 2 days ago? and here I am quoting from them. Oh well, when they're right they're right.
Conservatives have no monopoly on the stupid:
The Liberals' War on Science - Scientific American
And here's one from Reason Magazine:
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's - Reason.com
The only proof anyone needs that liberals are as anti-scientific as anyone who came down the pike is in Whole Foods, where the most incredible pseudoscientific claims are being made to sell stuff, and progressives just eat it up:
Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience - The Daily Beast
*sigh*
Here we go with the false equivalencies again. Yes, many liberals don't agree with mainstream scientific thought...but your own references show that the percentage of liberals who disagree with mainstream scientific thought is significantly SMALLER than the percentage of conservatives who disagree with mainstream scientific thought.
Sometimes you can tell just from a thread title that it is going to fail miserably, and probably be painfully stupid. This is one of those cases. Let's look at that scientific American article(reason and the daily beast are not exactly places I go to to find out about science, I leave that to those who want people to tell them what they want to hear):
So to start with, the left's war on science is, in part, because not all of them believe in man made global warming and evolution. Not as many as the right, but still some.
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