Re: CBS: The Republican War on Science

On May 7, 10:29 am, Glend <interelectromagne...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Gerson quote]"....For the most part, these accusations are a
political ploy — actually an attempt to shut down political debate.
Any practical concern about the content of government sex-education
curricula is labeled "anti-science." Any ethical question about the
destruction of human embryos to harvest their cells is dismissed as
"theological" and thus illegitimate.

[CBS]"The disingenuousness here is breathtaking. Yes, liberals and
conservatives have different views about sex education and stem cells,
but those aren't even close to being the core issues in the liberal
critique of the Republican war on science. The core issues, rather,
are global warming denialism; creationism and intelligent design; the
Gingrich-era shutdown of OTA; the promotion of phony cost-benefit
analysis; and politically motivated lying about things like Plan B,
breast cancer links to abortion, and condoms and STDs"

A bit more, and a link to Gerson's article, here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/07/politics/animal/main4076807...

Actually, I think it's a bit of both.  Gerson's right that genuine
ethical issues, which presumably are proper to debate, are often
thrown into the claim that there's a "Republican war on science."
While it's also true that a large portion of republicans (not all,
certainly) in fact do deny the science that suggests a strong
possibility that we are seeing anthropogenic global warming, as well
as other science.

I really hope that issues like creationism and intelligent design are
mostly not portrayed in partisan terms, however, because accepting
evolution is no more intrisically Democratic or liberal than it is
intrinsically pro-eugenic.

Glen Davidsonhttp://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7

What war?

Darwinian Judge Jones is said to be a Republican?

Ray

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