A Brief History of American Anti-Science

 

A two week old New York Time’s Magazine article does a good job of briefly tracing the current, largely Republican-led movement of climate-change denial as the product of a decade’s old pattern of politicized American opposition to science, engendered by the left during the 1960’s.  Climate change denial is, of course, not to be confused with genuine scientific skepticism.

While antiscientific sentiment is not relegated to the right, climate-change denial largely is. Alternative “medicine” and other similar antiscientific modalities seem to have more vociferous adherents on the left than the right; however,the denial of widely accepted scientific knowledge about global warming is largely absent from liberal politics. 

The short article is certainly worth a read.

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