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."

Comments

Re:U.S. is established on religion, so

[rrohbeck]

The US got dragged kicking and screaming into science by WW II. The Cold War sustained that.
Now that this is over, thank $DEITY we can all get rid of this science nonsense and focus on the important things like power, money and religion.

Re:Here we go again with the "Climate Deniers"

[Brett Buck]

I would also note (before we both get modded into oblivion for not toeing the line), that all the solutions amount to taking money from "rich" people and giving it to "poor" people - not actually doing anything. Sort of like the entire thing was concocted to force wealth distribution.