IDIOT AMERICA
Science is not a democracy, everybody doesn’t get to vote. Some things are correct, and some are not. Period. We must fight against teaching children that truth and fact are always in doubt. This is the goal of the Right-wing attacks on science, make no mistake. They want to make sure nobody takes any idea as unassailable fact because that fact might hurt the pocketbook of industry or be incompatible with some voting block’s ideals. It’s much more than just teaching that evolution is “just a theory” (leaving aside the fact that this just exposes complete ignorance of the definition of theory), it’s about making sure nobody really believes that polluting industries should be responsible for the damage they cause. It’s about making sure the government is paralyzed in protecting citizens because nobody can say definitively that something will be bad. Whenever somebody says that loosening standards is for your own good or for the good of your children, be on guard. You can be sure that no matter how inocuous it may seem, any time someone wants to redefine a word here or “expose children to more than one side of an argument” there, the purpose is to weaken their belief in science and make them more suseptible to the suggestion that nobody is an expert at anything and nothing is a real fact. Fight it whenever and whereever it pops up.
tags: grommes, science, evolution, right-wing