<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">From Quora, no?<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" 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">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">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p class="gmail-ui_qtext_para gmail-u-ltr gmail-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-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-ui_qtext_para gmail-u-ltr gmail-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-ui_qtext_para gmail-u-ltr gmail-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 style=""><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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