So Rick Santorum doesn't buy Evolution. So what? What Chivers actually knows about adaptive radiation can dance with an angel on the head of a pin. He doesn't "accept" science, like progressives constantly try to frame it in smug tones, he simply believes it. And he should. Evolution is the foundation of biology but it doesn't make him intellectually superior because he believes some aspect of science blindly. A whole lot more Democrats 'accept' astrology than Republicans, does that make all Democrats anti-science?
Pres. Obama did not accept the science that vaccines didn't cause Autism, yet he still got elected in 2008. Was he 'turning his back on the Enlightenment' the way Republicans supposedly are? Of course not, he is a progressive and so the fix is in.
When progressives deny the value of animal research in science, they are bequeathed false equivalence positions like it is simply 'moral' but if a Republican 10 years ago limited federal funds for human embryonic stem cell research to existing lines it was not a 'moral' position, it was 'anti-science'. The fact is that almost all scientists state animal research is necessary for science progress and 62% of Republicans agree but only 48% of Democrats 'accept' that science. And no one in media seems to mention it.
http://www.science20.com/science_20/maybe_assistant_comment_editors_shouldnt_write_about_science-86110
Virtually no one I talk to understands the scientific method, and especially the first principles of it, which is that no scientist is trustworthy. I like the way the article's author turns the current liberal smugness on its head - but don't take that as an endorsement of the GOP's science stupidity. Even most of the GOP that correctly identifies the left's belief in AGW as just one more justification for why they think they need to run things does not really understand why the Dems are dumb on AGW science.
Pres. Obama did not accept the science that vaccines didn't cause Autism, yet he still got elected in 2008. Was he 'turning his back on the Enlightenment' the way Republicans supposedly are? Of course not, he is a progressive and so the fix is in.
When progressives deny the value of animal research in science, they are bequeathed false equivalence positions like it is simply 'moral' but if a Republican 10 years ago limited federal funds for human embryonic stem cell research to existing lines it was not a 'moral' position, it was 'anti-science'. The fact is that almost all scientists state animal research is necessary for science progress and 62% of Republicans agree but only 48% of Democrats 'accept' that science. And no one in media seems to mention it.
http://www.science20.com/science_20/maybe_assistant_comment_editors_shouldnt_write_about_science-86110
Virtually no one I talk to understands the scientific method, and especially the first principles of it, which is that no scientist is trustworthy. I like the way the article's author turns the current liberal smugness on its head - but don't take that as an endorsement of the GOP's science stupidity. Even most of the GOP that correctly identifies the left's belief in AGW as just one more justification for why they think they need to run things does not really understand why the Dems are dumb on AGW science.
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