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Science Turns Authoritarian
The American ^
| Tuesday July 27, 2010
| Kenneth P. Green and Hiwa Alaghebandian
Posted on 07/28/2010 8:32:48 AM PDT by jpl
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To: Da Coyote
Democrats soil institutions.
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posted on
07/28/2010 10:56:06 AM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(More Central Planning is not the solution to the failures of Central Planning)
To: jpl
Excellent article. I’ve e-mailed this to a number of my friends who are always telling me I’m nuts for discounting science with my religious beliefs. After all, according to them, the science is proven.
To that I say HA.
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07/28/2010 11:55:46 AM PDT
by
RickB444
(Beat your sword into plowshares, but wined up plowing the fields of someone who kept their sword.)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
In a Wired article published at the end of May, writer Erin Biba bemoans the fact that "science" is losing its credibility with the public. The plunge in the public's belief in catastrophic climate change is her primary example. Biba wonders whether the loss of credibility might be due to the malfeasance unearthed by the leak of emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, but comes to the conclusion that malfeasance isn't the cause of the public's disaffection. No, people have turned against science simply because it lacks a good public relations outfit.
I'm sure that sentiment identical with Obama's on this or any other issue for which the American people don't fall for it is just a weird coincidence, rather than being another example of partisan media shill activity.
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posted on
07/28/2010 4:41:41 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: jpl
Much of the problem is the yuppifaction of science. Way too many people espouse ideas and theories based on career issues rather than evidence.
To: Da Coyote
Perfect. Liberals ruin whatever they touch. The human equivalent of cockroaches.
They destroy whatever they claim to love.
They hate people despite their rosy sounding programs.
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posted on
07/31/2010 8:12:55 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: jpl
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posted on
07/31/2010 8:18:18 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
(God Save America)
To: Matchett-PI
Funny you mention Michael Polanyi. That’s exactly who came to mind as I read this piece. Polanyi was one of the great discoveries I made thanks to Bob Godwin at OneCosmos. Polanyi’s ideas on science and the politicization of science are so relevant and on-target right now it’s not even funny.
To: Da Coyote
Liberals touched science. The results are identical whatever they touch. Faulty logic, inadequate thinking, shoddy research, and just plain corruption. That’s why they’re libs, folks. They CANNOT do anything properly. Uhhhhhhh, no. Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman, and a host of others were liberals.
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07/31/2010 8:39:11 PM PDT
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r9etb
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