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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 DoofusOfDeath · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And now the parent post is marked "Troll" as well. I'd forgotten that Slashdot is sometimes not a place for serious discussion.

  2. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so by El+Torico · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You must be new...oh wait, your UID is lower than mine, so I'll just assume you're hopelessly optimistic.

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