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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."
Fact: The climate has perpetually changed from the beginning of the Earth until present. Fact: The climate will continue to change until the end of time.
What exactly are politicians supposed to do about something out of our control?
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
"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.
Oh, hey look, an arrogant atheist. How new and original!
I'm glad to see that you reasoned yourself into something. Which philosophers did you read during this process? Did you give actual consideration to the centuries of thought that very smart people on both sides have put into this question? Or, like so many others, did you read a few snarky posts on Slashdot, maybe flip through a mass market polemic by Dawkins or whomever, and decide that you were smarter than 98% of the world's population?
You can't reason yourself into a solid belief system any more than you can reason yourself into understanding neurology. Simply joining the cool kids in laughing at everyone else doesn't make you informed. If you want to actually have an intelligent and sound world view, you have to read, and learn, and THINK. If that leads you to atheism, then fine. But that's not how you got there, now is it?