Comments on: GOPsters Fighting The War On Science Have Blood On Their Hands http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/gopsters-fighting-the-war-on-science-have-blood-on-their-hands/ science and the public square -- by thomas levenson Sun, 19 May 2013 17:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tom http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/gopsters-fighting-the-war-on-science-have-blood-on-their-hands/#comment-11251 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:41:18 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=5846#comment-11251 Actually no — both to the suggestion that the NRA is the appropriate object of this beef and to the assertion that I’ve already decided that all GOPsters are stupid.

What I do say, with plenty of evidence to back me up, is that the current GOP, both at its base and in it’s elected leadership, is hostile to science. See climate change, evolution — and volcano monitoring or DNA studies of cash crops and so on. See also the relative choices in budget negotiations.

Yes, the NRA are thugs who wish to constrain research that might allow real public health data on the threat of guns to emerge; they are enabled by a Republican party that has over the last couple of decades (and more!) rejected inquiry that might contest their policy choices.

Reality is a tough nut to swallow, often, but it beats the alternatives.

]]> By: Chance http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/gopsters-fighting-the-war-on-science-have-blood-on-their-hands/#comment-11250 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:31:22 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=5846#comment-11250 I think you are casting your net too wide here. I think your beef should be with the NRA, not an entire party – at least for this issue, not saying you can’t disagree with the party as a whole. If you are going to blog about a specific instance and infer certain characteristics, it should be about the group involved in the specific instance, not the group of which the NRA is a subset. Not all people who tend right are in lockstep with the NRA, and even those who agree with them closely aren’t even aware of the study.

It sounds like you decided in your head already that all Republicans are stupid, and this thing the NRA did proves it.

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