On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Interesting article on the assault on Science by the extreme right > wing. it starts off with this Limplob quote:
Not again. > The four corners of deceit: government, academia, science and media. > Those institutions are now corrupt and exist by virtue of deceit. > That's how they promulgate themselves; it is how they prosper.---Rush > Limbaugh Bravo! He hit the nail on the head! > What's next burning physicists at the stake? putting biologists in > concentration camps? Given the extreme rhetoric of the right wing its > not too unbelievable. What? Where did that come from? Asking for accountability is akin to genocide? > The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States > is the last thing the country needs in a time of economic challenge. Really? We should just look away? > There is a growing anti-science streak on the American right ... research. Take the surprise ousting last week of Lisa Murkowski, the ... reality of global warming exhibit 'A' for why she needs to go. She had to go because she was not conservative enough. Believing in the giant hoax is also a good reason. > The country's future crucially depends on education, science and technology. That's right. > The right-wing populism that is flourishing in the current climate of > economic insecurity echoes many traditional conservative themes, such > as opposition to taxes, regulation and immigration. But the Tea Party > and its cheerleaders, who include Limbaugh, Fox News television host > Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (who famously decried fruitfly research as > a waste of public money), are also tapping an age-old US political > impulse a suspicion of elites and expertise. Yeah! Send the elitist asses to the stockade. But whoa, who said they were against the experts? > Denialism over global warming has become a scientific cause célèbre > within the movement. Limbaugh, for instance, who has told his > listeners that science has become a home for displaced socialists and > communists, has called climate-change science the biggest scam in > the history of the world. I thought every knew it was a hoax. Didn't the IPCC admit most of the report was based on a magazine article some kid wrote based on theory and no science at all? > The Tea Party's leanings encompass > religious opposition to Darwinian evolution and to stem-cell and Where did they get that? The tea party is about the constitution, not about religion. I bet they claim it's about witchcraft too. > embryo research which Beck has equated with eugenics. The movement > is also averse to science-based regulation, which it sees as an excuse > for intrusive government. They must be talking about the EPA declaring C02 toxic waste. Yeah I had a problem with that too. I thinj they backtracked and now I can exhale. > Under the administration of George W. Bush, > science in policy had already taken knocks from both neglect and > ideology. Yet President Barack Obama's promise to restore science to > its rightful place seems to have linked science to liberal politics, > making it even more of a target of the right. Thank god somebody stood up to Jim Hansen and Al Gore. Someone needs to watch these folks or we end up with fake man-made global warming laws, near forced swine flu vaccines and that mad cow thingy where they slaughter millions of cows. They need to be regulated if they can change economies on a whim. I'm seeing a trend, like the banks and the SS fund. The left wants total freedom and the right wants accountability. > US citizens face economic problems that are all too real, and the > country's future crucially depends on education, science and > technology as it faces increasing competition from China and other And cap-n-trade is a scam that will have us surrendering to China. > emerging science powers. Last month's recall of hundreds of millions > of US eggs because of the risk of salmonella poisoning, and the What does that have to do with science? You keep your coops clean and no salmonella. Pretty clear cut. > Deepwater Horizon oil spill, are timely reminders of why the US > government needs to serve the people better by developing and > enforcing improved science-based regulations. Yet the public often > buys into anti-science, anti-regulation agendas that are orchestrated > by business interests and their sponsored think tanks and front > groups. Anti-science? Is that what he thinks? We're against taking the word of a guy that says trust me I'm a scientist so you can't read my notes. > In the current poisoned political atmosphere, the defenders of science > have few easy remedies. Defenders of science against the fake scientists. The ones that claim consensus and ostracize skeptics. > Reassuringly, polls continue to show that the > overwhelming majority of the US public sees science as a force for > good, and the anti-science rumblings may be ephemeral. As educators, > scientists should redouble their efforts to promote rationalism, > scholarship and critical thought among the young, and engage with both > the media and politicians to help illuminate the pressing > science-based ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328034 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
