<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 3:52 PM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@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="ltr"><div><p class="gmail-m_-1240811865027937512gmail-ui_qtext_para gmail-m_-1240811865027937512gmail-u-ltr gmail-m_-1240811865027937512gmail-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_-1240811865027937512gmail-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></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### Well, yeah, this is the one real right-wing piece of science denial on this list.</div><div> </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="ltr"><div><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">Global warming denialism.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### So say the same leftists who corrupted climate science, expelled independent scientists, silenced opposition, forged data and colluded in hiring activists into positions of power.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------ </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="ltr"><div><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-environmentalism generally.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### So it's anti-scientific to be a humanist, someone who sees value in humans, and not in the "environment"?</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------</div><div> </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="ltr"><div><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">Exaggerated claims about fetal development.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### The faithful believe fetuses have souls, they don't make any unusual claims about fetal development.</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------</div><div> </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="ltr"><div><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">Rejection of epidemiology as it pertains to sex, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted disease.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### Right wingers claim that homosexuality and promiscuity do not contribute to the risk of STDs, don't they?</div><div><br></div><div>---------------</div><div> </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="ltr"><div><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">Rejection of genetics, neurology, and psychology as they pertain to sex and gender.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### No, really? Rejection of the science of gender is one of the most prominent features of modern leftist identity, not right-identity, at least among whites.</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------</div><div> </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="ltr"><div><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">Pseudo-biological justifications for racism and sexism.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### Really? So the gender and grievance studies departments that fabricate justifications for institutionalized leftist racism (like affirmative action) or sexism (title IX) are in fact staffed by right-wingers?</div><div><br></div><div>------------------</div><div> </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="ltr"><div><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">Supply-side economics, if you count economics as a science. That’s a whole ‘nother discussion.</li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>### Because central planning and the 5 year plan are scientific?</div><div>----------------------</div><div> </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="ltr"><div><p class="gmail-m_-1240811865027937512gmail-ui_qtext_para gmail-m_-1240811865027937512gmail-u-ltr gmail-m_-1240811865027937512gmail-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></div></div></blockquote><div>### This is letting leftists off the hook so easily. What about IQ-denialism, race-denialism, opposition to climate engineering, gender-denialism, attacks on STEM and Western science as racist or sexist?</div><div><br></div><div>It's sad when a piece of leftist propagandizing presents itself as balanced centrism. The Overton window is so far left it fell out of the house.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div>