Posted on 04/30/2012 2:21:50 PM PDT by neverdem
“deep resistance to yielding before mere scientific evidence”
More like resistant to yielding to fake science paid for, compromised and coerced by leftist Democrats
I just spit all over my monitor.
And there lies the problem. Science is not based on whether or not a bunch of people agree or feel they have the correct answer, it is based on FACT.
Cotton Mather, Puritan/Amateur Scientist
File under “There is such a thing as being too clever for one’s own good,” or “Waiting for plain English summary,” simply under “Unread.”
Just because a consortium of leftists and anti-Christs say it’s so, doesn’t make it so, neither is it science.
Their shrill ad hominems only serve to convince the rest of us that they are agenda-driven, NOT fact driven.
Yep, they're so open-minded that their brains fell out.
It was “Science’ like this that brought us the liberal, politically-correct concept of EUGENICS, or Scientific Racism, and that it was OK to murder people because they were ‘inferior’ to you.
It’s important to remember that the 20th Century idea of Eugenics, which has killed MILLIONS, began in AMERICA, by Northeast RICH LIBERALS, who thought they were doing the world a favor, by ridding it of it’s ‘undesirable’ elements.
And the latest research that windmill farms cause localized climate warming...... bwahahahahahahha. Stupid liberal do gooders
Conservatives are leery of fad-science (snake oil) when common sense says otherwise. Same for fad-legislation.
Liberals ignore or have no common sense, & are emotionally swayed by pretty faces & smooth talking hucksters. They may have good hearts, but they are poor problem solvers.
“Crazy religious extremist” Cotton Mather encouraged the first experiments with smallpox inoculation in the new world.
http://www.celebrateboston.com/first/inoculation.htm
Mather also conducted some of the first known corn hybridization experiments.
And here it is Global Warming in a nutshell. It cannot explain nor predict observable phenomena (unless you juggle the numbers, browbeat skeptics, and fake the results).
This is a stupid argument, and is best avoided altogether. You’d tend to think that by being more religious and more generally old-fashioned, conservatives would be more “anti-science.” But this is the same sort of nonsense that caused Richard Hofstadter to call conservatives “anti-intellectuals” just because the intellectual class happened right then to be majority leftist.
Firstly, religious anti-science is vastly overrated. But let’s assume the lib case against supposed Bible-thumpers is sound. Who else doesn’t like Darwin? Libs, duh. Start digging into evolution, and you are immediately confronted with all manner of leftist horrors, from Malthusiansism to unavoidable gender differences, rationalizations of rape and racism, and worst of all inherent human nature.
Ever want to blow a liberal’s top, bring up Social Darwinism. Listen, if you can, while he screams at laissez faire, the struggle for existence, and survival of the fittest. Not that Darwinism correctly construed necessarily insists on these things. Overreliance on biological metaphors in political philosophy is a case of scientism (the misapplication of science in non-scientific settings), not science. Then again, I wonder why liberals are allowed to object to the invocation of Darwin as scientism, whereas when conservatives object to use of Darwin it’s anti-science.
I haven’t mentioned yet enviornmentalists, though by rights I should have started and ended there. Check liberals on how well they respect atomic physics, for instance. See how they react to what according to how we define other things ought to overwhelmingly be considered a conservative movement: romanticism. See how they react to Wordsworth, Ruskin, or Malthus for that matter (at least as regards specifically environmental problems, not his solutions).
Read a little post-modernism, deconstruction, poststructuralism, and so on. Tell me who’s anti-science.
They're not open-minded, they're empty-minded.
Try to tell liberals that science says men’s and women’s brains work differently.
Try to tell liberals that science can’t say homosexuals aren’t “born that way.”
Found this old thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300464/posts
This is a slight variation on the “Republicans and Conservatives are STOOPID” falsememe going around the so-called scientific elite.
Let me just say that this guy seems to only have a loose grasp of what science is. A person who is reasonably educated about science has no difficulty discerning science quackery from real science, but this guy doesn’t seem to have that ability, or to acknowledge that anyone has that ability.
Nothing else he said makes sense, either. If you take his word, there are no conservative scientists—and that simply is not true! Science is way too logical and methodical for extreme leftists, who detest its rationality. Liberal scientists tend to think more rationally than their colleagues in the social “sciences”. If anything, it seems there is a preponderance of libertarian scientists, although I do run into quite a few fellow conservatives.
Which guy, Lee Harris or Chris Mooney?
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