<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Yes - I should have said that.  bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 3:04 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">From Quora, no?<br><br><div id="gmail-m_716959631739907787AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">   Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 12, 2019, at 12:47 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><p class="gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-ui_qtext_para gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-u-ltr gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-u-text-align--start" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:q_serif,Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman","Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr"><br class="gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Examples of right-wing anti-science:</p><ol style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:q_serif,Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman","Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 2em 1em 0px;padding:0px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Creationism.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Global warming denialism.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Anti-environmentalism generally.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Exaggerated claims about fetal development.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Rejection of epidemiology as it pertains to sex, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted disease.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Rejection of genetics, neurology, and psychology as they pertain to sex and gender.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Pseudo-biological justifications for racism and sexism.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px">Supply-side economics, if you count economics as a science. That’s a whole ‘nother discussion.</li></ol><p class="gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-ui_qtext_para gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-u-ltr gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-u-text-align--start" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:q_serif,Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman","Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr">Examples of left-wing anti-science:</p><ol style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:q_serif,Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman","Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 2em 1em 0px;padding:0px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Anti-GMO hysteria.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Opposition to nuclear power under any and all circumstances.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Other extremes of environmentalism, with predictions of immediate doom rather than slow long-term change.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px">Opposition to space exploration: “why are we spending money up there when people are starving down here?”</li></ol><p class="gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-ui_qtext_para gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-u-ltr gmail-m_716959631739907787gmail-u-text-align--start" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:q_serif,Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman","Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr">Examples of anti-science shared by both left and right:</p><ol style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:q_serif,Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman","Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro",Meiryo,serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 2em 1em 0px;padding:0px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Antivax. Started as a left-wing mania, and still more common in liberal communities, but some of the most prominent advocates are right-wing politicians, e.g. Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Abuse of statistics regarding crime issues, especially gun control. Left- and right-wingers draw opposite conclusions from the same data, and they both go to absurd extremes. Principled statisticians are left crying in the wilderness.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0.7em">Suspicion of the enterprise of science: the idea that there are giant cabals of scientists working in secret with no oversight and “playing God” or uncovering “things we weren’t meant to know.”</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px">Closely related, the common cultural stereotypes of scientists as arrogant, aloof, and out of touch with the lives of “regular people.”</li></ol><div><font color="#333333" face="q_serif, Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Meiryo, serif"><span style="font-size:15px">bill w</span></font></div></div></div>
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