Posted on 04/14/2018 7:25:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We've been told conservatives don't believe in science and that there's a "Republican war on science."
But John Tierney, who's written about science for The New York Times for 25 years and now writes for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, told me in my latest online video, "The real war on science is the one from the left."
Really? Conservatives are more likely to be creationists -- denying evolution.
"Right," says Tierney. "But creationism doesn't affect the way science is done."
What about President George W. Bush banning government funding of stem cell research?
"He didn't stop stem cell research," Tierney reminds me. "The government wouldn't fund it. It turned out that it really didn't matter much." Private funding continued and, so far, has not discovered much.
"People talk about this Republican war on science, but if you look around, my question is, where are the casualties? What scientists lost their jobs?" asks Tierney. "I can't find examples where the right wing stopped the progress of science, whereas you can look on the left and you see so many areas that are taboo to research."
Some research on genetically modified foods became taboo because of protests from the left. That may have prevented a second Green Revolution to feed Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
‘I want food as God intended for humans to eat.’
that’s what humans suffering through divinely intended famines say...
not temporarily maybe but long term GMO foods likely leaves the body depleted of various nutrients. Even the bible gives example of how Joseph was put in charge to store enough grain to get the people through ( i thinkit was ) 7 years of famine. Obviously he didnt use GMO seed. He used wisdom and common sense and know how of the time.
Today we got stupid science trying to take the place of wisdom and common sense, we have greedy rulers starving their people and bountiful countries with greedy governments and businesses and even greedy/mismanaged charities some times too.
If we didn’t have so much waste and misuse of monies and food sources we’d likely be more effective in feeding the hungry in this country and the starving in other parts of the world. In the US, the hungry need to part of the solution not just takers as some are. In other counries truly being oppressed and starved, different story.
Left hates it because it’s free market capitalism.
Africa creates enough refugees as it is. Let it alone.
He’s not the first to bring this up.
The Real War on Science - By the Left
http://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html
Well said. as I like to say: prince kisses frog, frog turns into beautiful princess=fairy tale. Prince kisses frog + 4.6 billion years, frog turns into beautiful princess=evolution. Both are nonsense.
Kind of a joke actually. The amount of DNA scrambling going on due to nuclear accidents is far more significant.
“And as I recall, creationism has life starting out with mud, too.”
Fine. But I’m talking about the theory of intelligent design as an explanation of how life arose and evolved on the planet Earth. Nothing more.
I wasn’t commenting about the cosmology of the universe, simply commenting about an explanation for the formation and evolution of life on the planet Earth. Nothing more.
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