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Kind of a cool article. Makes you think, eh? Here's a snippet.
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Greenpeace insists that you should trust scientists on global warming but not on genetic modification, for example. In America, Greenpeace members are overwhelmingly Democrats but does the political makeup of the anti-vaccine and the anti-agriculture movement get any attention? No, yet 'stem cells' get trotted out again for Republicans, though, despite the fact that Republicans never objected to 'stem cells' in 40 years and even human embryonic stem cells were only limited(1) to existing lines - and then only if federal money was involved, because it was a violation of the Dickey-Wicker Act made into law by Democrat Bill Clinton to prevent research on embryos.
Hell, even Jeb Bush admitted that Reagan wouldn't be considered a Republican today.
My personal view is that both parties like to use science when it backs up their assertions. However, it seems that Republicans have been avoiding science when it doesn't suit them, as do Democrats.
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That's basically what the article says as well. It's like the Bible. Pick and choose what you like, discard the rest...or say it's not relative. The good science is the science that backs up your opinion.
Kind of a cool article. Makes you think, eh? Here's a snippet.
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Greenpeace insists that you should trust scientists on global warming but not on genetic modification, for example. In America, Greenpeace members are overwhelmingly Democrats but does the political makeup of the anti-vaccine and the anti-agriculture movement get any attention? No, yet 'stem cells' get trotted out again for Republicans, though, despite the fact that Republicans never objected to 'stem cells' in 40 years and even human embryonic stem cells were only limited(1) to existing lines - and then only if federal money was involved, because it was a violation of the Dickey-Wicker Act made into law by Democrat Bill Clinton to prevent research on embryos.
I trust science completely. However, I do not embrace junk science like global warming. The concept of man made "global warming" is a completely unsubstantiated hypothesis that should not be embraced as fact by any rational scientist.
Personally, I am more concerned about the anti-arithmetic Democrats than I am about the anti-science Republicans. The anti-arithmetic Democrats would render us starving in the dark long before any ill effects of the alleged anti-science Republicans show up.
Kind of a cool article. Makes you think, eh? Here's a snippet.
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Greenpeace insists that you should trust scientists on global warming but not on genetic modification, for example. In America, Greenpeace members are overwhelmingly Democrats but does the political makeup of the anti-vaccine and the anti-agriculture movement get any attention? No, yet 'stem cells' get trotted out again for Republicans, though, despite the fact that Republicans never objected to 'stem cells' in 40 years and even human embryonic stem cells were only limited(1) to existing lines - and then only if federal money was involved, because it was a violation of the Dickey-Wicker Act made into law by Democrat Bill Clinton to prevent research on embryos.
The anti-vaccine movement is composed of extreme right-wing and left-wing fanatics who feel it is all a "government plot".
Most of the anti-vaxers are anti-corporate naturalists. Go into any of the threads about natural healing, crystal therapy, holistic remedies etc. and you will quickly be waist deep in anti-vaxers.
I'm not going to try to label them politically as many of them are just moon-beam loopy and defy definition.
Most of the anti-vaxers are anti-corporate naturalists. Go into any of the threads about natural healing, crystal therapy, holistic remedies etc. and you will quickly be waist deep in anti-vaxers.
I'm not going to try to label them politically as many of them are just moon-beam loopy and defy definition.
Many of them are engineers with graduate degrees. I work in a pediatric office. I have met quite a few. I don't meet the ones you're talking about b/c they don't go to doctors.
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