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According to our dear friends over at Wired, we are losing the war on science. This interview with Shawn Otto, author of The War on Science [no-script hostile] ranges from the American presidential election to Albert Einstein:
His new book The War on Science explores ways that citizens can fight back against a creeping tide of anti-science nonsense promulgated by everyone from postmodern academics to greedy oil companies to nature-loving hippies. An important step is to make journalists understand that science and opinion should not be given equal weight.
"The purpose of a free press in a democracy is to hold the powerful accountable to the evidence," Otto says. "Journalists have really lost sight of that purpose, of their entire reason for being."
Fair enough. But things have gotten worse?
He fears that the war on science will only intensify once Donald Trump takes office in January. "I'm very concerned, as is the rest of the global scientific community," Otto says.
As a personal aside, I find it unlikely that the public, those who executed Socrates, burned the Library of Alexandria, and imprisoned Antoinio Gramsci, could fall for such a diaphanous fraud as the Republican attack on science! People back then were truly and profoundly stupid. But people today have the internet, and facebook, and a total misunderstanding of science, politics, ethics, and math. So, this will not end well? Help me, Soylentils, give me hope.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by xpda on Thursday December 08 2016, @11:30PM
It would be no wonder the U.S. did fall behind the rest of the world in science. When the U.S. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology feeds us blatant lies about global warming, there is something seriously wrong; a disconnect with reality. Congress can lie about science, but science does not care one whit what the Republican National Committee (or anybody else, for that matter) would prefer. Science is what is, not what some politician in Washington would like it to be. No matter how many lies we are fed and no matter how many gullible sheep believe these lies, it will not make the earth's warming trend disappear.
https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-change [weather.com]
How many other scientific falsities are promoted by the United States to promote a political agenda? How much science research will be cut in order to prevent uncomfortable facts from being disclosed? It is incredibly stupid and short-sighted to believe that science can be hidden by U.S. government propaganda. It's like putting Galileo under house arrest to keep the earth flat.