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America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Here's a good article about how playing politics with science puts our country at risk — a review of Shawn Otto's book Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America. Today's policy-makers, Otto shows, are increasingly unwilling to pursue many of the remedies science presents. They take one of two routes: deny the science, or pretend the problems don't exist."
"completely disregards science in favor of what someone wrote on paper 1500-2000 years ago. " Hm, such as what, exactly ?
They believe that unborn fetuses are unborn babies, and not body parts of the mother like science has shown them to be. Just because they have different genes doesn't make them not a body part! In fact, they're an edible body part, complete with all the nutrients a human body needs. Until they're born, they're fair game for anything the mother wants to do to them, including eating them.
The Canadian conservative government pulled out of Kyoto not because they hate science but because they don't care.
Alternatively, because they don't want to destroy their economy for the sake of a socialist fairy-tale. Not only does Canada absorb far more CO2 than it emits, but even if it did destroy its economy to keep the global socialists happy, the population is so small that it would have a negligible effect on a global scale.
If you want to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions you have to convince China and India to destroy their economies in the name of global socialism. Good luck with that.
The funny part is that the people I know who rant the most about 'climate change' also rant about how companies are shipping manufacturing jobs to China, which is driven in no small part by the increasing cost of energy due to 'CO2 reduction' crap. But I guess if they were smart, they wouldn't be lefties.