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u/LoomisDove · 12 pointsr/EverythingScience

I think this is the tragedy of our times. Instead of arguing about the solutions from an ideological view point, we argue about the science. Chris Mooney, at the Washington Post, wrote an interesting book about the subject that came out in 2005, The Republican War on Science. It is well worth reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Republican-War-Science-Chris-Mooney/dp/0465046762

And this even goes further back as you can see if you listen to Erik Conway's lecture on the "Merchants of Doubt: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6A4CZkOXg&amp;t=186s

u/QEDLondon · 6 pointsr/technology

That's an excellent argument there sparky.

Bush administrations' attacks on the integrity of science information" listing examples that include some of those mentioned by Oreskes and "undercutting the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act, and stacking agencies and advisory committees with unqualified ideologues." Stebbins credits the book with providing context by detailing the tactics employed by "conservative Republicans" and establishing the roots of these undercutting techniques with examples from the last 40 years.

The Republican War on science Read the book, follow up the citations and educate yourself.

u/DRUMS11 · 5 pointsr/atheism

I think everyone should read The Republican War on Science. It was so frigging depressing I couldn't finish the book.

u/AetheralCognition · 4 pointsr/JoeRogan

>You'll need to think of a better ad hominem.

I addressed the position you've taken and the reasons why you see things that way. If you found that offensive, i'm sorry but that is a personal problem. Insulting you was not the point or the totality of what i said.

>And you probably think NYT is unbiased also.

Strawman

>"conservative christian right" hasn't been a boogey man since 1997

Are you serious? Have you watched any of the red debates? Its like 90% theocrats.

Since Nixon/Reagan and the merging of religion and politics the right has gone so much further right and into science and fact denial that it's ridiculous to anyone that isn't brainwashed by it, and repeatedly told to dismiss any dissenting information on any desperate and falsified grounds they can find

Id like to give you some homework.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Republican-Science-Chris-Mooney/dp/0465046762

http://www.amazon.com/The-Republican-Brain-Science-Science/dp/1118094514

The first is more about ideological factors driving the detachments from reality

The second is more about psychological factors driving those same detachments.

"Reality has a well known 'liberal bias' " - Stephen Colbert

u/Nostromo1905 · 4 pointsr/politics

No surprise. This is from 2006 The Republican War on Science

u/WZBK · -1 pointsr/news