Y'know dude, I get a VERY different take-away from that last statement than I think you intended, but still very illustrative.
In the right in this country it is becoming increasingly acceptable and expected to view scietntific discussions that disagree with their viewpoints as some sort of "scientist conspiracy" against their viewpoints. This is suicide for the GOP. Period. not to mention lunacy. The scientific method is a slow moving process... but frankly it is an AWESOMELY successful and powerful doctrine, and one of Western though's crowning achievemnts. It gets to the correct answer by bouncing down paths until they are demonstrated to be incorrect. That is the way it works. It sometimes takes awhile, but it works DAMN WELL... and FAR BETTER than any other process ever tried. The right CLAIMS that the process has been politicizied... but actually ACTIVELY ACTS to explicitly politicize the process. It is crazy, and that fact more than any other will drive away middle of the road Americans, by thinking the right is too loony.
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