Pseudo-Science

Pseudo-Science June 8, 2008

We all believe that there is no conflict whatsoever between faith and reason and that truth cannot contradict truth. And yet people– especially in America, for some reason– will often place ideology above reason. We see it with fundamentalists and evolution, a widespread position (including some fringe Catholics like Bill Donohue). We see it most notably with global warming, when we see Catholics routinely downplay the issues, appealing to pop novelists, science fiction writers, and what they deemed learned rebuttals. Of course, when you scratch beneath the surface, what really bothers them is maintaining America’s material standard of living, consumerist culture and “competitive advantage”. Future generations and the world’s poor don’t matter at all.

Well, here is an interesting tidbit. A new study has discovered that 90 percent of all books published since 1972 denigrating environmental issues and mainstream science are linked to conservative think thanks (and here “conservative” is used to denote a particular American political ideology, which has little to do with the true meaning of the word). Anyway, something to think about.


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