(Aug 20, 2021 03:46 AM)Leigha Wrote: [...] Looks like the article is more of a rant against the Republican party, and seems hyperbolic. To me, it's not that ''most'' people are becoming anti-science, it's that many have lost faith in the government pushing certain agendas, and using science as a tool to do so.
What do you think?
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.
Even Tyson was once still mentally vigilant enough to not publicly approach the anti-science issue from a lop-sided political perspective.
(2016)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson tells Bill Maher that anti-science liberals are full of #### too
https://gizmodo.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-...1780648740
EXCERPT: This past Friday, Maher repeated a claim he often makes that was finally smacked down by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Namely, Maher said that conservatives are consistently more anti-science than liberals. That’s bullshit.
“Let’s not pretend that Democrats and Republicans equally deny science,” Maher said. But TV-scientist and friend of the show Neil DeGrasse Tyson quickly stepped in to correct Maher.
“Don’t be too high and mighty there,” Tyson said. “Because there are certain aspects of science denials that are squarely in the liberal left.”
Maher asked Tyson to elaborate. “I know one, but I don’t want to get into it,” Maher said.
What was “the one”? For viewers who are familiar with Maher’s bizarre belief that vaccines cause autism (they don’t), we could guess what he was talking about. But the panelists said it out loud anyway.
[...] Tyson went on to explain that liberals also tend to be the ones who consistently scare people about what they believe are the dangers of genetically modified organisms. He also rightly pointed out that liberals tend to be big believers in “alternative medicine.”
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaxx website shared more than WHO and CDC: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine website is shared more on Twitter than the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) combined, according to data from Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media.
Promotion of COVID-19 conspiracy theories: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kennedy promoted multiple conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 including false claims both Anthony Fauci and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are trying to profit off a vaccine."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: "Throughout the presidency of George W. Bush, Kennedy was a persistent critic of Bush's environmental and energy policies. He accused Bush of defunding and corrupting federal science projects." [
Hell calling the Sahara hot.]
Political endorsements: In late 2007, Kennedy and his sisters Kerry and Kathleen announced that they would be endorsing Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries. After the Democratic Convention, Kennedy campaigned for Obama across the country. After the election, he was named as a front-runner for Obama's EPA administrator.
A significant chunk of activity in the social sciences seems to treat humanities literature and its outputted propaganda and advocated political orientations as if they have de facto status. Thereby being a proper cognitive stance for evaluating research data, filtering or cherry-picking it, and dabbling in statistical fallacies to circularly justify those guiding presuppositions, and their policy prescriptions.
Social sciences & humanities have a reciprocal relationship: "
It’s therefore no surprise that the role of the social sciences, humanities and arts is so critical right now."