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  • As if there were any doubts about the atrocities perpetrated by the Republican government, here's an account of what they're doing to science: to stem cell research, to the environment, to endargened species, to the teaching of evolution, etc., while deriding people who live "in what we call the rea ... Continue

    As if there were any doubts about the atrocities perpetrated by the Republican government, here's an account of what they're doing to science: to stem cell research, to the environment, to endargened species, to the teaching of evolution, etc., while deriding people who live "in what we call the reality-based community," which consists of those who "believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality." (I'm not joking.) Read it and be prepared to take a bath with Clorox and a steel brush when you are done.

    

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• ― disturbingtheuniverse said on Sep 24, 2006 | Add your feedback

In the tradition of What Liberal Media? and What's the Matter with Kansas?, a stinging indictment of how one party has placed politics over science and embraced politically motivated pseudoscience

Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since the Eisenhower administration. In the White House and Congress today, findings are reported in a politicized manner; spun or distorted to fit the speaker's agenda; or, when they're too inconvenient, ignored entirely. On a broad array of issues-stem cell research, climate change, missile defense, abstinence education, product safety, environmental regulation, and many others-the Bush administration's positions fly in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus. Federal science agencies, once fiercely independent under both Republican and Democratic presidents, are increasingly staffed by political appointees and fringe theorists who know industry lobbyists and evangelical activists far better than they know the science.

This is not unique to the Bush administration, but it is largely a Republican phenomenon, born of a conservative dislike of environmental, health, and safety regulation, and at the extremes, of evolution and legalized abortion. In The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney ties together the disparate strands of the attack on science into a compelling and frightening account of our government's increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.

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