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HereSince1628

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7. Galileo wasn't even suggesting man was wrecking the solar system

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 10:36 AM

Mar 2012

he was just challenging a position of religion.

Now there is environmental science arguing that pillaging and despoiling the commons, a system that the economic system is based on, is dangerous to life on this orb.

OF COURSE there is an attempt to discredit science and to move the arguments into political realms where the status of scientific analysis is reduced to 'an opinion' and thereby made equal to rightwing economic ideology.

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Study: Conservatives' trust in science has fallen dramatically since mid-1970s [View all] OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 OP

Maybe the root of the distrust is akin to why some people just don't like math: no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #1

As a former math teacher I agree longship Mar 2012 #6

Only a very little bit zipplewrath Mar 2012 #8

That cultural attitude is a real problem eridani Mar 2012 #13

Part of it is the overall approach to math. no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #9

Conservatives are in death struggle against reality and logic... rfranklin Mar 2012 #2

It's a pity they aren't losing faster izquierdista Mar 2012 #5

Maybe if the scientists hadn't made all those robots... Ian David Mar 2012 #3

Eppur si muove CBGLuthier Mar 2012 #4

Galileo wasn't even suggesting man was wrecking the solar system HereSince1628 Mar 2012 #7

The 70s were when holy rollerism started to take over Warpy Mar 2012 #10

That's because they don't like anything that can throw facts that will get in the way Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #11

Here's an MSNBC story on the subject. SpankMe Mar 2012 #12

Probably true, though I think both ends of the spectrum can be pretty dumb on science now. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2012 #14

I bet its the same for Liberals. Odin2005 Mar 2012 #15