Comments on: Erasing false balance: the right is more antiscience than the left

By: Erasing false balance: the right is more antiscience than the left | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine | Secularity

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:23:16 +0000

[...] Erasing false balance: the right is more antiscience than the left | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazi…. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. By Colin Mackay • Tagged anti science, science 0 [...]

By: Steve D

Steve D — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:56:02 +0000

The Right produces cranks. The Left produces meta-cranks. The Left isn’t afraid of data because they can spin any finding to fit their ideology. Teen pregnancy declines? It’s because of our programs. Teen pregnancy rises? It’s because of the Religious Right, not because our programs failed. Minorities lag behind whites even with civil rights laws? The white power structure has ways of keeping itself in power. People oppose liberal policies? They have a false consciousness. You dropped out of school and you’re poor? Not your fault – that’s “blaming the victim.” “Homosexuality is wrong?” Where’s your evidence? “Gay marriage is a right?” We don’t need evidence.

Surely the ultimate anti-intellectualism is attacking the notion of reality itself, and liberals are far more likely to buy into post-modernism that conservatives. The entire field of philosophy of science is now essentially pseudoscience.

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:49:53 +0000

Isolate the target freeze it. A tried and true technic.
Tea Party ultra religious, hardly.
What is seen? The right understands that government spending is at unsustainable levels.
Unseen? The abject fear of funding cuts. The left, the party of pay offs with other peoples money. The right, the party that understands the importance of private property rights and a sound society.
It is rational for the scientific community to fear the lose of power by the pay off left party however, with $15 trillion in debt and unsustainable deficit spending all spending is destined to fail.
Better pick your side soon. Sustainable scientific funding or none. The choice is yours. (We saw this when Bush lowered one program a minor amount after Clinton increased it by an astronomical amount. I’d get rid of the blue t-shirts.)

By: The Orwellian Philosopher

The Orwellian Philosopher — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:58:27 +0000

In virtual sociopsychopolitical terms this article is correct. In the real world it is 180 degrees off. The right in real world terms is proscience and has done myriads for it in terms of its progress that requires real world economic support and funding. As implied it does this behind a hypocritical facade of being anti-science. The left mouths a proscience stance and in reality is destroying science and real world rational based world. The ultimate of Orwellian irony. TOP

By: Scientists: Scamming America | Cosmic Variance | JoeShop

Scientists: Scamming America | Cosmic Variance | JoeShop — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:11:09 +0000

[...] I am generally a fan of the two-party system. Sadly, at the moment in this country, one of the parties is completely crazy. [...]

By: Scientists: Scamming America | Outlooks & Insights

Scientists: Scamming America | Outlooks & Insights — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:27:22 +0000

[...] I am generally a fan of the two-party system. Sadly, at the moment in this country, one of the parties is completely crazy. [...]

By: Scientists: Scamming America | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

Scientists: Scamming America | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:28:12 +0000

[...] I am generally a fan of the two-party system. Sadly, at the moment in this country, one of the parties is completely crazy. [...]

By: AEI’s Kenneth Green Pulls a Charlie Sheen, Plays “Socialist” Card in Exchange With Chris Mooney » Global Activist Network

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:44:11 +0000

[...] and the right today. For some, this seems to have been a pretty powerful statement. And thus my friend Phil Plait, who I’ll be glad to see at CSICON in New Orleans next month, weighed in and said: This is one of [...]

By: Elmar_M

Elmar_M — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:11:25 +0000

I want to add one last thing to this discussion:
Keeping the people in your nation healthy, is actually a matter of national security and making sure that the people arround you are healthy should be in your best interest as well.
The reasons for this are obvious when it comes to contagious illnesses. Someone who is sick and is not treated can infect many others.
But also non cantagious ilnesses can be a threat to public savety if untreated.
To give the first silly example that comes to my mind : somone who has a brain tumor should not be driving arround in a car. You want that person in a hospital, not outside, where they can injure people. But if he can only afford treatment if he keeps driving to work every morning, or if he just keeps driving without treatment at all, then he could be a danger to everyone. These things can cause all sorts of things from blackouts to halucinations. Ok, this is not a very common illness, luckily, but still I am sure you get the idea.

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:59:04 +0000

@158 Nigel Depledge: Sure, come to the UK.
Just make sure your application states that you are seeking asylum from political persecution in your homeland.

Rats! In all honesty, I’m not sure that’s true

Wait… I supposed I could move to rural Mississippi, and try to start an Atheism club. At that point, I can simply show up to my immigration hearing still covered in tar and feathers. That ought to get me in