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.
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Glowbull Warming!
FIRST, we must win the left's was on REALITY.
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.
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.
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.
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Just like one of the Left’s patron saints, Rachael Carson, helped ban DDT and allowed millions to die in Africa of malaria.
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.
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.”
You will certainly be mocked for thinking there is a God that created everything, but not for thinking that everything created itself.
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.
If I was starving in a third world country, I don’t think I would turn my nose up to a gmo tomato.
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.
We’re not allowed to talk about this, or criticize. Liberals own science. / bitter sarc
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?
Darwinian evolution whose scientific foundation is known to be essentially non-existent
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.
‘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...?
bfl
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