On 01/12/2017 04:09 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Christoph's had some worrying aspects about how science is
> viewed/presented in a popular way. This is another - darker - aspect:
>
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http://www.nature.com/news/fantasy-politics-over-fetal-tissue-research-1.21263?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170112&spMailingID=53176252&spUserID=MjA1NzUyMzA4OAS2&spJobID=1082042362&spReportId=MTA4MjA0MjM2MgS2

The writers of said science fiction saga do not believe in facts.  You 
can show them the evidence, the videos, the fossils, the birth 
certificates, and even the confessions and apologies of their own 
Republican leaders, and they will dismiss it all out of hand, because 
the facts stubbornly refuse to conform to their fixed beliefs.

BTW, "fixed beliefs" is *their* terminology.

Their attempt to redefine science is nothing new.  They've been trying 
for years to force scientists in the USA to include the supernatural in 
their theories.  This, of course, fits into their narrative that reality 
is defined by what they believe.  If the scientific method isn't to 
their liking, they just redefine it, and cry "unfair" when scientists 
explain that they don't get to do that.

We've even got an Australian immigrant, who's found fertile ground in 
the USA, lecturing scientists on what is proper science!  And he's 
conned the Kentucky legislature into giving him a huge tax break on a 
big boat on dry land, because if scientists knew what they were doing, 
they'd obviously understand that children rode bareback on velociraptors 
before the Big Flood.

This is the mindset of approximately a quarter of all USAmericans.

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