January 21, 2013

The Liberals' War on Science

Michael Shermer, Scientific American


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Believe it or not—and I suspect most readers will not—there's a liberal war on science. Say what?

We are well aware of the Republican war on science from the eponymous 2006 book (Basic Books) by Chris Mooney, and I have castigated conservatives myself in my 2006 book Why Darwin Matters (Henry Holt) for their erroneous belief that the theory of evolution leads to a breakdown of morality.

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TAGGED: GMO, Creationism, anti-science, Liberal

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