Great response - I would say the assaults on Science from the Left are having a way bigger impact than the Right’s feeble attempts due mainly to a complicit Media. The Right simply doesn’t have a platform to push their agenda (if by the Right, you mean Christian literalists/creationists). You can be on the political Right and not believe in any of that. However, you wouldn’t be allowed quarter as a Lefty if you didn’t buy into most of their nonsense. It all comes down to how do we mortals interpret what pure Science shows us? That’s why in a court of law, you have to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In science, we get told nothing beyond the results of the ‘experiment.’ Fair enough, but at least give me the parameters and prove to me that you did follow the Rules.
Where would you categorize Dr. Suzuki? I watched a little bit of his interview on the Weather Channel last night - so charming and caring. But, how evil is a scientist who promotes world-wide hysteria that could affect all of us by horrible laws being passed that will ruin economies and throw people out of work? He even said that Leaders who disagree with the Alarmists should be put in jail because it is they who are ruining the earth. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTVkMWViZmY5M2I5MTUxZTRkZmJhZjI2NjE5NjEwNzE=
Is gross irresponsibility Evil? Or do we leave that term for the Dr. Mengeles who hurt a lot of people in his rather limited world? Or is it worse than Mengele? Think about the effects of not using DDT any more and how many millions have died for no good reason...all due to junk science and ‘good intentions.’ I know - mosquito nets will do the trick!
Contemporary orthodox science is controlled by an oligarchy of grant fund junkies and ideological brahmins. Absolutely no science will be funded that does not fit into accepted doctrine, ie., big bang, black hole, dark matter and so on.
For example, the approach to anthropology known as “diffusionism” popularized by outcast scientists such as Thor Heyerdahl and Barry Fell, in which it is observed that ancient civilizations were massively ocean-going and ocean-colonizing, was made poitically incorrect by controller elements who basically couldn’t admit to themselves that ancient people had the smarts in maritime construction or geometry to navigate the globe. For generations diffusionists have been vilified and ridiculed by academia and refused access to peer-reviewed journals or university tenure.
Now, the Human Genome project data is proving that waves of migration washed the world’s shores in all directions during the bronze age, that in fact, as inventor Buckminster Fuller once claimed, the birth of civilization occurred in riparian/riverine locations precisely because of the smarts necessary to sail a boat.