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John Stossel: The left's war on science
Fox News ^ | 11 Apr, 2018 | John Sossell

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 ...


TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: johnsossell; johnstossel; johntierney
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1 posted on 04/14/2018 7:25:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Glowbull Warming!


2 posted on 04/14/2018 7:25:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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John Stossel: The left's war on science

FIRST, we must win the left's was on REALITY.

3 posted on 04/14/2018 7:34:47 AM PDT by 21st Century Crusader (If you are not standing for The Flag or The Anthem, you damn well better be in a wheelchair!)
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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.

Totally agree. One of my daughters friends has a degree in some kind of agriculture science and was educating me about how GMO plants are actually good for the environment. The use little or no pesticides (good thing, right?), they use less water (another good thing, right?), they grow faster, thus increasing the annual yield (a third good thing right?), but all the left protest it.

Reminds me of a case study I did while getting my MBA, way back when, about Ford developing a 4 cylinder engine that burned gas so completely that it would not need a catalytic converter. Greenpeace railed against the release of that engine and Ford said screw it and shelved it. Turns out the GP was getting it's funding from the catalytic converter manufacturers.

4 posted on 04/14/2018 7:43:29 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Common sense can solve a lot of issues when applied properly)
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To: 21st Century Crusader

Ministry of Truth, Newspeak, Big Brother, telescreens...prophetic book that 1984.


5 posted on 04/14/2018 7:44:12 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: MtnClimber

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3646676/posts


6 posted on 04/14/2018 7:52:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: polymuser
Ministry of Truth, Newspeak, Big Brother, telescreens...prophetic book that 1984.

It was very prophetic. Orwell was a brilliant man."We have always been at war with Oceania"

Orwell did not know what new technology would be in the future when he wrote 1984. He sure as hell knew what they would do with the technology.

7 posted on 04/14/2018 8:03:17 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: MtnClimber

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.

Just like one of the Left’s patron saints, Rachael Carson, helped ban DDT and allowed millions to die in Africa of malaria.


8 posted on 04/14/2018 8:05:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: MtnClimber

Stossel skirted the fact that anyone who attempts to discuss intelligent design as a theory of how life evolved won’t be hired or will be run out of the “intellectual” community.

And my personal theory about why that is the case is not because intelligent design is too ridiculous to even discuss, but because it makes more sense and is FAR more likely to be true than Darwinian evolution whose scientific foundation is known to be essentially non-existent by one and all of those who promote it, since Darwinian evolution is nothing more than a slightly dressed up version of the older spontaneous generation theory in which life springs whole from mud puddles. In fact, the only real difference between Darwinian evolution and spontaneous generation is the amount of time involved ... they both start with mud puddles and end with home sapiens with no explanatory motivating force in between.


9 posted on 04/14/2018 8:51:34 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Trey Parker of South Park, put it best...

“Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous — the silliest one I’ve ever heard is, ‘Yeah ... there’s this big giant universe and it’s expanding, it’s all gonna collapse on itself and we’re all just here just ‘cause ... just ‘cause’. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.”


10 posted on 04/14/2018 8:52:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MtnClimber

You will certainly be mocked for thinking there is a God that created everything, but not for thinking that everything created itself.


11 posted on 04/14/2018 9:33:27 AM PDT by robel
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To: Cyclone59

You don’t want Food that grows faster with less water because that lowers quality. It is like that big fat peach or the green tomato that tastes like cardboard. Quit messing with nature.

GMO denies evolution and says this brainy scientist is smarter than the previous million years of evolving. No test exists to determine the damage done by modifying genes. Impossible.

More people, and lower quality food, are lousy values.
Modern food has a much lower quality, sinking ever so lower. No frankenstein biologist will reverse that.


12 posted on 04/14/2018 9:39:02 AM PDT by TheNext
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If I was starving in a third world country, I don’t think I would turn my nose up to a gmo tomato.


13 posted on 04/14/2018 9:48:26 AM PDT by robel
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To: MtnClimber

Liberalism demands that political correctness and Marxist ideology comes before scientific fact. If you try to tell them facts, their first instinct is to plug their ears and to scream you down.


14 posted on 04/14/2018 9:51:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: MtnClimber

We’re not allowed to talk about this, or criticize. Liberals own science. / bitter sarc


15 posted on 04/14/2018 10:16:26 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: MtnClimber

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


16 posted on 04/14/2018 11:21:17 AM PDT by abclily
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To: catnipman

Darwinian evolution whose scientific foundation is known to be essentially non-existent


Says you. And as I recall, creationism has life starting out with mud, too.


17 posted on 04/14/2018 11:30:06 AM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Cyclone59

what studies long term, have shown no negative effect of GMO food on the human body?

I believe God designed/created food for us. Being He knows what He’s doing, don’t you think He would have made it orginially grow quicker, bigger yields etc if He thought that would be best?

We have so much fake or poor quality “food” and that is why so much more disease etc, imo. I want food as God intended for humans to eat.


18 posted on 04/14/2018 12:02:23 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: catnipman

‘because it makes more sense and is FAR more likely’

you find it particularly intelligent, (assume that our solar system is the totality of existace)to create a sun and nine orbiting bodies dependent on it for life, and then to place eight of the nine too near or too far, so that they remain devoid of life...?


19 posted on 04/14/2018 12:11:28 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: MtnClimber

bfl


20 posted on 04/14/2018 12:13:26 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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