On Mar 21, 8:50 pm, "Dan Luke" wrote:

But it is illustrative of the current right wing impulse towards
anti-intellectualism. Stein is a good example of how modern right wing
ideology will deny any science it perceives as a threat to the party line.

There's a paragraph laden with broad brush accusations -- who exactly
is this "right wing?"

Of course. But, once upon a time, conservatives claimed the scientific high
ground, chiding leftists for their post-modernist denials of empirical
knowledge. Now we see that when science gores right wing oxen,
"conservatives" cry conspiracy.

"Science" has been no friend to conservatives or liberals for a very,
very long time. I'd like to know when this golden era passed wherein
conservatives and scientists lay down as peacefully as lions and
lambs...

If by "science" you mean the academy writ large, certainly you live in
a dream world if you think that ivory tower is free of bias.


Dan Mc