Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Liberals Love Science — Unless It Proves Them Wrong
New York Post ^ | May 20, 2016 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 05/20/2016 9:21:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Why do liberals hate science?

The left has long claimed that it has something of a monopoly on scientific expertise. For instance, once there were “scientific socialists.” “Social engineer” is now rightly seen as a term of scorn and derision, but it was once a label that progressive eggheads eagerly accepted.

Masking opinions in a white smock is a brilliant, albeit infuriating and shabby, rhetorical tactic. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS:

1 posted on 05/20/2016 9:21:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Science is man’s attempt to discover how God works.


2 posted on 05/20/2016 9:22:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Liberals only exploit things for the purpose of furthering liberalism. They ‘love’ nothing except to see others as miserable as they are.


3 posted on 05/20/2016 9:23:58 PM PDT by SpaceBar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Thanks for posting. Easily the best thing I’ve read today.


4 posted on 05/20/2016 9:28:08 PM PDT by Jedidah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
Liberals Love Science — Unless It Proves Them Wrong

That's a non-sequitur.
Liberals think computer simulations are science.

If they are that clueless, they have no more chance of seeing that they are proven wrong as they have of pointing out a single "prediction" that they have made that has been proven right.

Psychobabble and bluster make great jokes, but to date no science whatsoever.

5 posted on 05/20/2016 9:34:09 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Liberals have a tough time understanding chromosomes.


6 posted on 05/20/2016 9:40:52 PM PDT by Vic S (I am not a number; I am a free man!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Liberals love evolution, until they realize the reproductive failures they now promote are just the kind that would be weeded out by evolution.


7 posted on 05/20/2016 9:44:46 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Al Gore said we had until 2015 to fix it, or it would be irreparable. Many scientists agreed. Thus we should only be concentrating on moving people out of cities within 100 feet of sea level, or you’re a climate change denier!


8 posted on 05/20/2016 9:53:52 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Al Gore said we had until 2015 to fix it, or it would be irreparable. Many scientists agreed. Thus we should only be concentrating on moving people out of cities within 100 feet of sea level, or you’re a climate change denier!


9 posted on 05/20/2016 9:54:22 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

My favorite lines...

The New York Times recently reported about A.J. Jackson’s travails in a Vermont high school. “There were practical issues,” Anemona Hartocollis writes. “When he had his period, he wondered if he should revert to the girls’ bathroom, because there was no place to throw away his used tampons.”

Now, one can have sympathy for the transgendered — I certainly do — while simultaneously holding to the scientific fact that boys do not menstruate. This is a fact far more settled than the very best climate science. Perhaps it’s rude to say so, but facts do not cease to be facts simply because they offend.


10 posted on 05/20/2016 9:55:53 PM PDT by Slicksadick (We accept the love we think we deserve.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: kingu

In 1990 they said we had 10 years left. They kept making deadlines.


11 posted on 05/20/2016 10:05:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: kingu

Do you have a citation for Al Gore on that 2015 thing?


12 posted on 05/20/2016 10:05:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Slicksadick
My favorite lines... The New York Times recently reported about A.J. Jackson’s travails in a Vermont high school. “There were practical issues,” Anemona Hartocollis writes. “When he had his period, he wondered if he should revert to the girls’ bathroom, because there was no place to throw away his used tampons.” Now, one can have sympathy for the transgendered — I certainly do — while simultaneously holding to the scientific fact that boys do not menstruate. This is a fact far more settled than the very best climate science. Perhaps it’s rude to say so, but facts do not cease to be facts simply because they offend.

"Sometimes I get them menstrual cramps real hard."

13 posted on 05/20/2016 10:19:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Although I didn’t agree with him on politics, I had a great deal of respect for Daniel Patrick Moynihan . He had a working brain.


14 posted on 05/20/2016 10:47:22 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Liberals love science as long as there are fat corporate and government grants paid out for ‘research’ - i.e., secretarial, administrative, and laboratory workers with their hands out for summer homes, private schools for the kids, and European sports cars.

If not, they could care less.


15 posted on 05/20/2016 11:04:41 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

When you talk to a liberal, speak slowly and do not use big words.


16 posted on 05/21/2016 4:56:41 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Libs only love science when they are using it an a cudgel, pretending they have cornered the market on ‘science’. And Big Media pretends that everything the Libs say in regards to ‘science’, is the truth.


17 posted on 05/21/2016 7:00:58 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson