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Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science'
ndogg writes with news that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has counterattacked those critical of conservative views on science, saying that they're 'anti-science' themselves. From a CBS report:
"In his remarks Monday, Santorum went beyond his usual discussion of the importance of increasing domestic energy production to deliver a blistering attack on environmental activists. He said global warming claims are based on 'phony studies,' and that climate change science is little more than 'political science.' His views are not 'anti-science' as Democrats claim, Santorum said. 'When it comes to the management of the Earth, they are the anti-science ones. We are the ones who stand for science, and technology, and using the resources we have to be able to make sure that we have a quality of life in this country and (that we) maintain a good and stable environment,' he said to applause, and cited local ordinances to reduce coal dust pollution in Pittsburgh during the heyday of coal mining."
Democrats talk a lot about science when it comes to climate change (to justify government control of the economy), embryonic stem cells (to give abortion an upside), or evolution (out of a dislike of creationism). But where are they when it comes to science for the sake of human knowledge instead of some blatant political agenda? Obama gutted the space program. Democrats killed the Superconducting Super Collider. Nobody on the left has a bold scientific vision like Newt Gingrich's moon base proposal.
In science you accept postulates which can neither be proven nor disproven.
Furthermore, specific beliefs such as atheism operate on same level as believing in God. If God can't be proven or disproven, and it is a cardinal violation of science to believe in anything that can't be tested, then why is it acceptable to believe definitive in the inverse?
You can argue the only people who hold true to scientific tenets are agnostics.
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They're not dumb, they're just following an agenda that requires a bit of science denial now and then.
This is politicians in general. Just about anytime someone says "blah blah (democrats/republicans) blah blah" it can be applied both ways. Partisan politics are stupid, imo.
For global warming, it's because the rich assholes they toady to don't want to change the way they do business, even if it means destroying the nest we live in.[*]
You know what, even if man made global warming is real, the estimates that i've seen are a 1 degree rise in temperature and sea level rising a foot, over a century. And the only acceptable reaction, less you be labeled a denier is "LET"S DRASTICALLY ALTER OUR WAY OF LIFE AND BASICALLY FORGO MODERN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT". Have fun explaining that to someone when they can't get their medicine on time, because that diesel truck was causing too much pollution. Or countless other scenarios that are helped because of oil.
For creationism, it's because there aren't enough rich people to win elections, so they have to con various flavors of fools into voting against their own best interests.
That's right anyone who doesn't vote your way is a fool. You know what, it drives me nuts arguing with liberals/conservatives, but I almost always refrain from calling people stupid(and i regret the times i have done that). You know why? Because it's not really true. Besides which, lowering yourself to insults is usually just an indicator of a lack of an intelligent argument.
Related note, the junk food industry is fighting efforts to remove vending machines from gradeschools, because their profits are more important than the kids' health.
Personally I don't give a shit either way, it's the decision of the school and parents. Thankfully, people actually care about their children, if it's a big issue to them, they won't let the machines in.
We've evolved into a society where the haves only care about having more, fuck the consequences.
No, human beings don't evolve a whole lot (back to that science thing). People, like you apparently, just think you know better for other people than they do. Which leads to this sort of bullshit.