Arden Chatfield
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| Quote | | ... internationally respected scientific journals such as Rivista di Biologia. |
Most notable for being the only journal in the world that will print Davison's articles anymore...
| Quote | | The conservative view of scientific issues? Even though this entry correctly summarizes the, uh, quality of the evolution article, it's nonetheless a bit saddening. The fact that there is an expectation that our best method of understanding our world is subject to view through the lens of political ideology is unsurprising, but still saddening. |
Not surprising indeed. It reminds me of how the USSR had 'Marxist science' and Nazi Germany had 'National Socialist science'. Now we essentially have 'Republican Biology', 'Republican Climatology', 'Republican Geology', etc. They're getting more and more willing to reject all mainstream science to do this. All part of this 21st century American notion that ALL reality is political, and that 'truth' belongs to whoever argues the most belligerently.
One could also write a whole book on this modern day compulsion of American conservatives to carve out their own whole parallel little wingnut-friendly world for themselves, when they can't shape the real world to their own specifications. (The extreme of this are those nutters who want to form their own little fundy republic in South Carolina.) Can't help but wonder how far that trend will go.
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"Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus
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