tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14443165.post114336458314083361..comments2023-10-26T06:34:26.079-05:00Comments on Right from the Right: Global warming or global cooling?The Gamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10838768455546308652noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14443165.post-1143608969658821542006-03-28T23:09:00.000-06:002006-03-28T23:09:00.000-06:00Yes, there are people on either side that are radi...Yes, there are people on either side that are radical in their actions and ideas, but I don't believe it's fair to characterize the "left" by the actions of a radical few anymore than it's fair to character the "right" by the actions of the Phelps bunch.<BR/><BR/>Do you?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10004209843701697773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14443165.post-1143521250613012512006-03-27T22:47:00.000-06:002006-03-27T22:47:00.000-06:00Jim--You're familiar with what happened to Lawrenc...Jim--<BR/><BR/>You're familiar with what happened to Lawrence Summers over at Harvard, right? He mentioned the <I>possibility</I> that the low representation of women in highly mathematized and scientific fields may have a biological basis, and the PC Nazis ran him out of town. Summers's comments were reasonable and within the academic spirit of free inquiry, but the left will have none of it if science puts one of their sacred idols at risk. <BR/><BR/>Another example of left hostility to science would be the observatory built at Mount Graham in 1998 -- environmentalists protested it since its contruction would lower a squirrel population. People working at the facility have faced threats of physical violence and sabotage from the eco-terrorists. Again, <A HREF="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96353,00.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> is a specifically leftist behavior.<BR/><BR/>And don't get me started on how the left wants to replace scientific merit with affirmative action bullshit.jhbowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377271992125388319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14443165.post-1143397937019919512006-03-26T12:32:00.000-06:002006-03-26T12:32:00.000-06:00Good response Jason, except that I would qualify y...Good response Jason, except that I would qualify your segment descriptions to supporters of the military/industrial complex and some religious groups (on the right) and radical fringe groups (on the left).<BR/><BR/>"Accusing science of being a social construct that is racist, sexist, and promotes the ends of evil capitalists" is in no way representative of the overwhelming majority of those on the left.<BR/><BR/>More than ever, science is being politicized (read "ignored") by this administration.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10004209843701697773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14443165.post-1143391118607765602006-03-26T10:38:00.000-06:002006-03-26T10:38:00.000-06:00Plus, there is way too much coorelary evidence to ...Plus, there is way too much coorelary evidence to support a need in reduction of greenhouse gases, or there WONT be a cooling shift in the future, or as cool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14443165.post-1143387572806029522006-03-26T09:39:00.000-06:002006-03-26T09:39:00.000-06:00science should not be political, but it clearly is...science should not be political, but it clearly is.The Gamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10838768455546308652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14443165.post-1143385765520824712006-03-26T09:09:00.000-06:002006-03-26T09:09:00.000-06:00game--Here's the form of your argument. "Scientist...game--<BR/><BR/>Here's the form of your argument. "Scientists are fallible, therefore anything they say is wrong."<BR/><BR/>It doesn't follow. A proposition put forth by a scientist can be wrong. But it isn't wrong on the basis of scientists making errors in the past.<BR/><BR/>Take plate tectonics, for instance. Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift in 1915, but most scientists rejected the theory until the 1960s, when <B>evidence</B> of things like magnetic striping, seafloor spreading, seismic activity and so forth came to light.<BR/><BR/>The right, which was very pro-science during the time of Eisenhower, has developed an incoherent habit of liking scientists when we develop military hardware, even putting too much faith in farfetched projects like a missile shield, and rejecting science when it doesn't suit their ideological needs, like stem cell research, informing schoolchildren about the theory of evolution by natural selection, and global warming. Meanwhile the left accuses science of being a social construct that is racist, sexist, and promotes the ends of evil capitalists. <BR/><BR/>Have people gone mad?jhbowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377271992125388319noreply@blogger.com