QUOTE: ...with so much already reported about the alleged " conservative war on science," it is time to present, as Paul Harvey famously said, the rest of the story."
Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left Alex Berezow, Hank Campbell
Publication Date: September 12, 2012 | ISBN-10: 1610391640 | ISBN-13: 978-1610391641
BLURB: To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning—and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic biological research, and even life-saving vaccines come naturally to many progressives. These are positions supported by little more than junk-science and paranoid thinking.
Now for the first time, science writers Dr. Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell have drawn open the curtain on the left’s fear of science. As Science Left Behind reveals, vague inclinations about the wholesomeness of all things natural, the unhealthiness of the unnatural, and many other seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation. The results: public health crises, damaging and misguided policies, and worst of all, a new culture war over basic scientific facts—in which the left is just as culpable as the right.
QUOTE "We love liberals and libertarians because of their insistence on freedom. In particular we favour liberalism in the classical sense, as philosopher-physiciam John Locke defined it -- the pursuit of "liberty". We are radically liberal about scientific thought. Science should be far beyond the reach of agenda-driven politicians and activists. Science should be free to speak for itself, not be held hostage by partisan politics. And most importantly, science policy should be driven by data, not ideology. therefore in the classical sense, we are stauch science liberals."
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