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America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy

Posted by Soulskill on from the tide-goes-in-tide-goes-out dept.

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."

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  1. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so by Riceballsan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is actually quite a bit fewer the higher up and more educated they get if I recall the last numbers from the national academy of science showed about 93% as atheist, and if I recall that number goes up even further in the fields of geology, paleontology and microbiology.

  2. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so by jcr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When a better term is provided for people who don't believe in a god or gods but feel the need to go around telling themselves of the fact is invented we will use that term.

    I propose "antitheist", or "debunker".

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."