"There’s a risk of getting too cute here, of drawing false, unwarranted equivalencies. In a sense, my dad was right in what he was getting at — conservatives have done a lot of damage to sound science in the United States. It’s conservative lawmakers and organizations who have refused to acknowledge anthropogenic climate change, who have rallied to keep evolution out of textbooks and comprehensive sex education out of classrooms, who have stymied life-saving research into stem cells and gun control." Does the author really doubt that there are no sound reasons for doubting some aspects of anthropogenic climate theory? The length of the Holocene Epoch certainly suggests that factors have been at work to extend the period, the discovery of agriculture, the building of cities, and other human activity should certainly be considered among them. But even whether this is a problem can be called by reasonable persons. It is progressives who want to stop the conversation, as they always do when the conversation gets in the way of their policy of choice.
"There’s a risk of getting too cute here, of drawing false, unwarranted equivalencies. In a sense, my dad was right in what he was getting at — conservatives have done a lot of damage to sound science in the United States. It’s conservative lawmakers and organizations who have refused to acknowledge anthropogenic climate change, who have rallied to keep evolution out of textbooks and comprehensive sex education out of classrooms, who have stymied life-saving research into stem cells and gun control."
ReplyDeleteDoes the author really doubt that there are no sound reasons for doubting some aspects of anthropogenic climate theory? The length of the Holocene Epoch certainly suggests that factors have been at work to extend the period, the discovery of agriculture, the building of cities, and other human activity should certainly be considered among them. But even whether this is a problem can be called by reasonable persons. It is progressives who want to stop the conversation, as they always do when the conversation gets in the way of their policy of choice.
Thanks for writing, Frank. I found the piece fascinating on balance, won't you agree?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Science has been presented as something pure, but it is just as subject to human weakness as anything else.
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