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A Phony War on Science

Nobody says that. I even know two or three real, practicing published scientists who are republicans.
It's only the demented neocons who hate science.
 

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Jeff Corey said:
I even know two or three real, practicing published scientists who are republicans.
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Yes, here are a couple:

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Aww. He is saying science IS bad, and there is no war, just that science is bad because it causes people to make a choice about whether or not to give birth to children with Down's, etc. So, if this choice was taken away... then what?

The same "science" (being able to tell a baby's sex or congenital disease in utero) is being used to abort females in places like India and China. Is science bad? No. It is just being used in a way that is repugnant in some cases.

This guy might as well say guns are evil too.

Well, the Bush government does intervene in science. Whether or not you want to call it a war, that is up to whomever. Bush is not shy about his reasons either.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010809-2.html

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards...
I also believe human life is a sacred gift from our Creator. I worry about a culture that devalues life, and believe as your President I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world. And while we're all hopeful about the potential of this research, no one can be certain that the science will live up to the hope it has generated.
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Hazards hey. Well, outlaw cloning then. Don't kaibosh all research because of your unfounded fears and distrust of scientists.

Whatever you want to call it, a war, whatever, it is happening.
 
Rodney said:
"There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a 'war on science'." See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy.../05/06/AR2008050602446.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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Apparently, Mr. Gerson doesn't read his own paper. George Deutsch, a Bush appointee NASA's press office, would doctor press releases before they were released to be more in line with the Bush administration's political goals (or at least, modified to not rattle Bush's religious base).
 
Republicans aren't waging a war on science. George W. Bush and his appointees are. Why Republicans still support those fake conservatives is beyond my comprehension.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
Fake conservative? What is a real conservative?
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Generally, someone who supports constitutional rights, opposes excessive government spending, and subscribes to the realist theory of foreign policy.

Barry Goldwater was the last conservative politician with national name recognition. Arne Carlson, former governor of Minnesota, is the most recent conservative to hold office that I can remember.
 
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godless dave said:
Generally, someone who supports constitutional rights, opposes excessive government spending, and subscribes to the realist theory of foreign policy.

Barry Goldwater was the last conservative politician with national name recognition. Arne Carlson, former governor of Minnesota, is the most recent conservative to hold office that I can remember.
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I can't help but notice that "real conservatives" are small minority fading into nonexistance. At this point, are there even enough of them to warrant consideration?
 
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