tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post8924410687175153643..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: False Equivalency As Anti-Science PolemicDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-43455240105053204782013-01-06T16:03:56.876-08:002013-01-06T16:03:56.876-08:00Anti-vax conspiricism is hardly indigenous to the ...Anti-vax conspiricism is hardly indigenous to the Democratic left in the way "creation science" and climate change denialism and the rest are indispensable to the Movement Republican right.<br /><br />(Btw, as a side note, I don't know that I accept HuffPo as honestly exemplary of the Democratic left, given its endless reflexive Obama-betrayal exposes, its labor practices, its championing of arch-con Breitbart, Huffington's own intimate history with the GOP, etc. And I definitely cannot say I am eager to see her as a vector of New Age crapola infusing left discourse, even though HuffPo also obviously does publish great indispensable progressive journalism and editorials too.)<br /><br />I don't think pointing out the disproportion of anti-science in the right implies scientific perfection on the left in the least. I think reasonable people already assume such caveats, and hence actually insisting on making that point every time the reality of the disproportion is named actually functions as a ritual generating precisely the kind of "false equivalency" that worries Myers here, and me too.<br /><br />I think it is perfectly reasonable to focus on just how bad and just how damaging the Movement Republicans are right now. I don't believe anybody with any sense thinks a person making this point must also believe that Democrats couldn't be better about funding education and research and advocating policies that better accorded with consensus science.<br /><br />That goes without saying, I think, and every second wasted on saying it (except when one is actually drawing attention to a particular instance of bad policy) would be better spent focusing on the real problem instead, the anti-science of today's GOP. Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-70310342018853230732013-01-06T15:40:15.733-08:002013-01-06T15:40:15.733-08:00There is no "middle ground" between &quo...There is no "middle ground" between "the earth goes around the sun" and "the sun goes around the earth" -- and anyone who wants to force acceptance of such a "compromise" is deluded at best.Athena Andreadishttp://www.starshipreckless.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-40351446206629846672013-01-06T15:12:22.625-08:002013-01-06T15:12:22.625-08:00It's worth noting that there is some anti scie...It's worth noting that there is some anti science looneyism in the left. Namely the anti vax conspiracy stuff but this is offered up merely as a fig leaf to the huffington post and oprah crowd and doesn't translate into policy.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.com