Science + politics = crap

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I like to listen to scientific lectures. Unfortunately, it's becoming rare to be able to listen to an entire lecture without hearing an awkward jab at the anti-science mindset of the Republican Party. I don't disagree, but it's still the pot calling the kettle "black".

The Democratic Party is just as anti-science; they just differ in the parts of science they don't like.

Years ago, the Republican anti-science condemned by the science lecturers was usually centered on biology/evolution. Now the irony is that it's much more likely to be about "climate change"-- a topic the Democrats are decidedly anti-science about. Occasionally it is anti-gun bigotry or genderism that inspires the complaint against Republicans, but those are a lot rarer in science lectures than the "climate change" stuff. And sometimes the reason isn't even specified, it's just stated as axiomatic that "GOP = anti-science". I've even heard libertarians included with Republicans a time or two.

Basically, what they are implying is that if you aren't a Left-Statist you are backwards and ignorant. Everyone but their team needs to be scolded and corrected like a naughty, stupid child.

When you try to mix a little politics in with your science, you have abandoned science for religion-- the religion of Statism. It doesn't matter what variety of politics you mix in, either. Politics has no place in science. None.

Really, politics has no place in society... or in life.

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Just watch a scientist absolutely wreck his career by showing any hesitation around Darwinism.
Of course the state is going to undermine competing religions. If you can convince people there's nothing after death then threatening to kill them for disobedience, or even to cage them for some of their remaining lifespan, becomes extra potent.

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It is strange how the more science becomes intertwined with politics, the less room there is for dissent and inquiry. Well, maybe not so strange after all, considering the nature of politics. People are quick to question any scientific study sponsored by corporate interests, and rightly so, but no one wants to consider the public choice economics of government-sponsored studies. Government is not some kind of neutral, aloof, unconcerned party, because it is composed of people with ideological interests and motivations to gain more power at least as much as any corporate board.

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