Water Dog wrote:Res Ipsa wrote:Part of the problem with the opening post is that it conflates several different things into what it means to be anti-science.
True, I am conflating. It has to do with how those on the left treat information, whether it has to do with accusations of sexual misconduct or climate science. The left politicizes, sensationalizes, emotionalizes, etc. Even in cases where the left may arguably be "more right," it will politicize a subject to a point that it becomes clouded in misinformation and malicious intent. Like the Kavanaugh situation, it then ceases to be about the original subject, like Kavanaugh's fitness, and instead becomes a referendum on something else entirely. Global warming is a classic example. There is some legitimacy and truth to the science, hidden many layers deep, well below the fake politicized narrative. To the left, climate science is but a useful tool to advance an authoritarian agenda. The world's first "carbon billionaire" Al Gore has done more damage to the credibility of the science than anyone.
Nonsense, WD. The right politicized the crap out of climate science right out of the gate. The science is pretty straightforward and based on well-established physics. The only thing it’s hidden under is piles of pure crap thrown around by anti-government, global conspiracy mongeribg types. The only fake politicized narrative is the one you folks on the right try to push about the purpose of the science being to promote some global agenda to destroy freedom.
You are such a walking bundle of projection that it’s stunning to read. Every single thing you accuse the left of in this post, is what the right has done in spades. You are mired so deep in pure partisanship that you can’t think straight.
The Al Gore comment is the 100% tell. Al Gore communicated the problem. Had we taken the science he presented seriously, we could have more gradually taken the steps needed to eliminate net CO2 emissions without a significant shock to the economy. Instead, the right did what it always does when presented with facts it doesn’t like — it went on the personal attack. Al Gore did zero to damage the credibility of climate science. The right set out to destroy Al Gore. Just like it did with Janes Hansen. Just like it did with Michael Mann. You guys on the right didn’t like what the science said, so you went in on an all out blitz to destroy the science and the scientists.
You are anti-science, Dog. You may fool yourself, but you don’t fool us. You’re so afraid that the libs are up to something that you turn your back on the science that you give lip service to. For all the mockery you make of people who put feelings first, you’ve put your feelings ahead of the science.
You are exactly why folks identify anti-science with the right.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
