Liberals: We Are Guided By Science
"One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president." -Al Gore
As the identity Left moved out of the communes and into the suburbs and progressivism became much more strongly associated with the interests and habits of affluent, educated, coastal elites, professing one’s love of Science became an exercise in telegraphing status.
-Kevin D. Williamson 
If COVID-19 did leak from that Wuhan lab, Thomas Frank thunders at The Guardian, “we may very well see the expert-worshiping values of modern liberalism go up in a fireball of public anger.”
In the Trump years, “liberalism made a sort of cult out of science, expertise, the university system, executive-branch ‘norms,’ the ‘intelligence community,’ the State Department, NGOs, the legacy news media and the hierarchy of credentialed achievement in general.”
But if the once-suppressed lab-leak theory proves true, it will “start to dawn on people that our mistake was not insufficient reverence for scientists, or inadequate respect for expertise, or not enough censorship on Facebook. It was a failure to think critically about all of the above.”
-NY Post Editorial Board
There’s a popular notion that liberals are science-minded, while conservatives are the major perpetrators of anti-science rhetoric. But astrophysicist and science personality Neil DeGrasse Tyson says the left is deluding itself. -William Hicks
Government, Incompetence, Obama, Science, Islam
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Republicans Are Anti-Science!
Truth is, since peaking in 1964, federal funding on sciences as a percentage of GDP has gone down under every President, Democratic or Republican, except for Ronald Reagan. -Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
“Don’t be all high and mighty there,” Tyson said to Maher, interrupting Maher’s anti-Repbulican screed. “Because there is certain aspects of science denial that are squarely in the liberal left.”
-William Hicks
Progressives love to promote a narrative wherein they are on the side of science, while conservatives (and religious people especially) are sticking their heads in the sand and wishing away the mountains of empirical evidence that run contrary to their views.
-Rachel Lu
Identity politics also makes sense of empty phrases like “we believe in science.” The Left finds much of its self-worth in the notion that liberals “believe in science” more than conservative mouth-breathers do.
-Timothy P. Carney
Set aside the fact that twice as many Democrats as Republicans believe in astrology, a pseudoscientific medieval farce.
Left-wing ideologues also frequently espouse an irrational fear of nuclear power, genetic modification, and industrial and agricultural chemistry—even though all of these scientific breakthroughs have enriched lives, lengthened lifespans, and produced substantial economic growth over the last century.
-Mischa Fisher
In the end, the lion’s share of cuts to planetary exploration have come from the White House. Nye took to YouTube to record an open letter to President Obama, asking him to restore America’s role as a global leader of science, specifically solar system science.
A sample of over 1,500 representative U.S. adults revealed that those who felt climate change was not much of a risk scored as well or better than those worried about climate change when given standardized tests of numeracy or scientific literacy.
So if you really care about doing something about emissions and climate, do not make the mistake that those who disagree with you do not know the science or are in any sense not as well-informed or as smart as you are.
-Peter Kareiva
Liberal, Funny, Science, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops, Stereotyping
However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said. Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him. “I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,” Kahan wrote. “But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the tea party,” he continued.
Democrat, Editorial, Liberal, Incompetence, Obama, Science, Narrative, Education
Numerous studies on Head Start, the federal pre-K program for poor kids, show that its reading and math gains virtually evaporate by fourth grade. And the latest evidence from Oklahoma and Georgia, two states that implemented universal pre-K in the 1990s, only confirms this. Oklahoma's high-school graduation rates have dropped since it embraced UPK and Georgia's remain stagnant. The average reading score of Oklahoma's fourth graders on the NAEP -- the national report card -- dropped four points between 1998 and 2011. Georgia just reached the national average. The NAEP reading gap between black and white children in Oklahoma was 22 points in 1992. In 2011? The same. Georgia had a 28-point spread in 1992. In 2011? Twenty-three points. How should President Barack Obama, who had promised evidence-based policy, have responded? By renouncing his commitment to UPK. What did he do? Jetted to Georgia and declared its program a national model.
-Shikha Dalmia
Liberal, Science, Narrative, Bush
President George W. Bush will seek to boost NASA's budget by 5 percent annually for the next three years to help pay for his plan to put a base on the moon and to mount a manned expedition to Mars later in the century, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The plan calls for establishing a permanent presence on the moon within two decades and to put astronauts on Mars sometime after 2030, the official said.
Liberal, Financial, Science, Narrative, Oops, Education
The new law seeks to improve the US' science and technology base through measures such as increasing funding for schools to improve the levels of science and math education, and by boosting funding for NASA, NOAA, and the NSF, amongst other organizations. Among other things, there is money set aside for schools to offer more students the opportunity to undertake Advance Placement and International Baccalaureate programs, for universities and research institutes to set up summer programs in collaboration with schools, more funding for teacher training in maths and science, and also for foreign language education.
A majority of Democrats (51.4%) could not correctly answer both that the earth revolves around the Sun and that this takes year. Republicans fare a bit better, with only 37.9% failing to get both correct. When the the political orientation was further subdivided, conservative Republicans — the group many would identify as the “religious right” — out performed even those intellectual titans known as liberal Democrats:
Conservative Republican: 67.2%
Liberal Democrat: 62.0%
When Obama diplomatically ducked a question on the campaign trail about the age of the Earth (“I don’t presume to know”), the press paid no attention.
When Marco Rubio later did the same thing (“I’m not a scientist”), he was lambasted as a typical Republican ignoramus determined to bring back the Dark Ages.
-John Tierney
Liberal, Character, Degeneracy, Crazy
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco supervisor says he consulted a Ouija board before city leaders voted on whether to recommend naming a Navy ship after slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Supervisor John Avalos tells the San Francisco Chronicle that he believes he made contact with Milk’s spirit and that Milk spelled out letters indicating: “Good riddance to don’t ask, don’t tell.”
Restore science to its rightful place
Staff members throughout the government’s scientific agencies held inaugural parties on Tuesday, and many reported being teary-eyed with joy.
Next, we are restoring science to its rightful place. On March 9th, I signed an executive memorandum with a clear message: Under my administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. (Applause.)
"I’m glad I’ve been promoted Scientist-in-Chief," Obama said to laughter at the White House. "Given my grades in physics, I’m not sure it’s deserving. But I hold science in proper esteem, so maybe that gives me a little credit."
In the end, the lion’s share of cuts to planetary exploration have come from the White House. Nye took to YouTube to record an open letter to President Obama, asking him to restore America’s role as a global leader of science, specifically solar system science.
You would think this would be the kind of initiative that President Obama, having promised to “restore science to its proper place” in his inaugural address, would strongly support. And you’d be wrong. Turns out fusion energy research received much stronger support and higher funding from the “anti-science” Bush Administration. . . The total budget for the Princeton lab is considerably less than the Solyndra loan guarantee. -Steven Hayward
Warming, Obama, Science
Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect.
Warming, Obama, Science, Politics
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has obtained an EPA study of the "endangerment" to human well-being ostensibly caused by carbon dioxide emissions, together with a set of EPA emails indicating that the study, which concludes that carbon dioxide is not a significant cause of climate change, was suppressed by the EPA for political reasons.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Obama, Science
WASHINGTON – The Interior Department's inspector general says the White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it falsely appear that scientists and experts supported the idea of the administration's six-month ban on new drilling.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Obama, Science
WASHINGTON (AP) - The oil spill that damaged the Gulf of Mexico's reefs and wetlands is also threatening to stain the Obama administration's reputation for relying on science to guide policy. Academics, environmentalists and federal investigators have accused the administration since the April spill of downplaying scientific findings, misrepresenting data and most recently misconstruing the opinions of experts it solicited.
Democrat, Environmentalist, Warming, Liberal, Obama, Science, Oops, Demagoguery, Lie
President Obama’s State of the Union, where he said, talking about global warming: “Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense.” That statement was demonstrably false, as SEPP’s The Week That Was points out: The claim is so factually challenged that it is a wonder it got by the White House staff. Looking at the weather stations that have 80 years of data shows heat records were set in the 1930s, the Palmer drought index shows the 1930s and the 1950s were hotter and dryer with the 1930’s dust bowl lasting a decade. … Increased floods are not supported by the data, and, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, wildfires are declining.
Democrat, Environmentalist, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Obama, Oops
The government’s hopeful predictions for ethanol have proven so inaccurate that scientists question whether it will ever achieve its central environmental goal: reducing greenhouse gases. That makes the hidden costs even more significant. “This is an ecological disaster,” said Craig Cox of the Environmental Working Group, a natural ally of the president that, like others, now finds itself at odds with the White House.
Democrat, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Funny, Science, Brilliance, Oops, Education, Healthcare, Hoax, Ignorance
It appears Democrat McBride received a phone call from a constituent asking what Trenton was doing to combat the dreaded chroma-labial infection. When she found herself questioning a health official at a hearing, Democrat McBride raised her concerns, as reported by NJ.com: "It's already claimed 85 lives and there's a case here in Trenton," McBride said. "It is a virus that is 10 times greater at this point than the AIDS virus."
Democrat, Warming, Liberal, Obama, Science, Narrative, Oops
The historic drought that blazed across America's corn belt last year was not caused by climate change, a federal government study found. The summer of 2012 was the driest since record-keeping began more than a century ago, as well as one of the hottest, producing drought conditions across two-thirds of the continental United States. Barack Obama and other prominent figures have repeatedly cited the drought as evidence of climate change. But the report released on Thursday by scientists at five different government agencies said that was not the case.
We Have Reached the Peak Level
Lindzen singled out Secretary of State John Kerry for his ‘ignorance’ on science. “John Kerry stands alone,” Lindzen said. “Kerry expresses his ignorance of what science is,” he added. Lindzen also criticized EPA Chief Gina McCarthy’s education: “I don’t want to be snobbish, but U Mass Boston is not a very good school,” he said to laughter. -Marc Morano
Democrat, Liberal, Science, Brilliance, Oops
First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign urging Americans to drink one more glass of water per day is based on faulty science experts said Friday on CNN. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of the University of Pennsylvania alleged the campaign is supporting urban myths surrounding increased water consumption that have been “debunked over the years”.
Democrats and SCIENCE
% Correctly Answering That the Earth Goes Around the Sun & That It Takes a Year
| NORC GSS 2012, including panel data; weighted N=2186 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Political Group | % Correct | wtd N |
| Democrat | 48.6% | 778 |
| Independent | 55.0% | 853 |
| Republican | 62.1% | 556 |
| Liberal Democrat | 62.0% | 356 |
| Moderate Democrat | 43.7% | 258 |
| Conservative Republican | 67.2% | 403 |
Do we need new a government program to get Democrats better educated?
In reaction to the fool Trump, liberalism made a sort of cult out of science, expertise, the university system, executive-branch “norms,” the “intelligence community,” the State Department, NGOs, the legacy news media, and the hierarchy of credentialed achievement in general.
Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Fraud, Science
Giaever was one of President Obama's key scientific supporters in 2008. Giaever joined over 70 Nobel Science Laureates in endorse Obama in an October 29, 2008 open letter. In addition to Giaever, other prominent scientists have resigned from APS over its stance on man-made global warming. See: Prominent Physicist Hal Lewis Resigns from APS: 'Climategate was a fraud on a scale I have never seen...Effect on APS position: None. None at all. This is not science'
Democrat, Funny, Science, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops, Education, Ignorance
Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to believe in astrology, according to a new survey. The survey used data from the large-scale General Social Survey, and was produced by James Lindgren, a law professor at Northwestern University. He’s the director of the “Demography of Diversity Project.” The survey showed that 49.1 percent of Democrats and 45.5 percent of liberals believe astrology is scientific. But only 36.9 percent of Republicans and 40.1 percent of conservatives agreed to place their faith in the movement of the stars.
Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson
Fears Guam Will Tip Over and Capsize
"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize." -Democrat ("The Party of Science") Congressman Hank Johnson
Environmentalist, Warming, Liberal, Funny, Science, Oops, Ignorance
Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience in Mexico on Wednesday that temperatures in Europe and in Vietnam were “unprecedented” and broke “every record that’s ever been seen.” However, although it was hot that day, he was off the mark... Wednesday was a hot day in Vietnam, with temperatures rising at their highest to 36 degrees celsius (96.8°F) at Tan Son Nhut international airport in Ho Chi Minh City. But according to Vietnam’s foreign ministry, the highest temperature recorded in May is 39°C (102.2°F) in Ho Chi Minh City, and 42°C (107.6°F) in Hanoi. The Hanoi record was registered in 1926.
Anti-Science Liberals And Vaccination
Wealth enables these people to hire fringe pediatricians who will coddle their irrational beliefs. But it doesn't entitle them to threaten an entire city's children with terrifying, 19th-century diseases for no reason.
Finally, The Truth Comes Out...
"We Choose Truth Over Facts."
The Liberal Narrative And The Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
A virus doesn’t care about your ego. If you were wrong and refuse to admit it, we all know you’re full of crap and you’re only damaging your own reputation.
-Jim Treacher
Blue State Covid-19 Incompetence
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19.
Hey Liberals?... Science.
Fauci, President Joe Biden, and their allies in the media called for nationwide lockdowns, with Biden condemning Trump for leaving the decision to states and Fauci saying this time last year, “I don’t understand why” a nationwide stay-at-home order isn’t happening.
As is so often the case, however, the conventional wisdom was wrong.
This is science, y’all...
"When you go into a community that is struggling and you put the money in a woman’s hands it’s more likely to benefit the community as a whole.
This is science, y’all."
"Obama has long been delusional on this issue. Anyone who believes we are in a climate catastrophe, I think is deluding themselves." -Climate Statistics Professor Dr. Caleb Rossiter
Environmentalist, Warming, Liberal, Science, Narrative, Oops
Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychology by Yale Professor Dan Kahan. He finds that skeptics score about the same (in fact slightly better) on climate science questions. The study asked 2,000 respondents nine questions about where they thought scientists stand on climate science. On average, skeptics got about 4.5 questions correct, whereas manmade warming believers got about 4 questions right.
Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Funny, Science, Narrative, Oops, Ignorance
Abinanti has introduced a bill that would outlaw the use of any vaccine that contains a genetically modified organism. This would include any organism that has had genes deleted or added to it, unless that addition occurred through a process like selective breeding or hybridization. Thus, if scientists were able to specifically delete virulence factors from a bacterial pathogen in order to turn it into a harmless vaccine strain, this law would prevent its use in New York. Instead, scientists would have to put the virus through random mutation and hope to come up with the right combination of mutations to accomplish precisely the same thing.
"The challenge I think we have is for some reason climate change has become a religion — a politically induced religion instead of science fact that now we have to embrace and move forward on."
Environmentalist, Warming, Science, Oops
A new Yale-led study estimates that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, about seven and a half times more than some previous estimates... The new insights can improve the modeling of many large-scale systems, from carbon cycling and climate change models to the distribution of animal and plant species, say the researchers.
Liberal Virtue Signaling...
"Being 'pro-science' has become a bizarre cultural phenomenon in which liberals (and other members of the cultural elite) engage in public displays of self-reckoned intelligence as a kind of performance art, while demonstrating zero evidence to justify it."
Government, Incompetence, Funny, Science, Politics, Waste, Feminism
The National Science Foundation has spent more than $400,000 on a study that published scientific results on the “relationship between gender and glaciers.”
The paper “Glaciers, gender, and science,” published in January 2016, concluded that “ice is not just ice,” urging scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial” approach when they study melting ice caps and climate change.
There Is No Consensus Criteria For Assigning Sex At Birth...
"It’s not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth."
And Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), speaking generally of the U.S. dietary guidelines, suggested at the meeting that no more research is necessary to know what should be done. “We don’t need these studies!” she said, throwing a fist in the air. “We have the data.” -Peter Whoriskey
Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Science, Narrative, Oops, Ignorance
A controversial regulation to update the nutrition facts label that is part of the first lady’s Let’s Move push was finalized by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, and scientists are warning the new label is not based on sound science.
The changes to the nutrition facts label, which first lady Michelle Obama will announce Friday when she speaks at the Let’s Move-aligned Partnership for a Healthier America, requires food manufacturers to list added sugars, which scientists say lacks “scientific rigor.” The label will also cost companies at least $640 million to update, and a net social cost of $1.4 billion.
Environmentalist, Government, Incompetence, Fraud, Science, Narrative, Oops, Experts, Waste, Lie, Corruption
Nearly two decades and $108 million worth of “disturbing” data manipulation with “serious and far ranging” effects forced a federal lab to close, a congressman revealed Thursday. The inorganic section of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo. manipulated data on a variety of topics – including many related to the environment – from 1996 to 2014. The manipulation was caught in 2008, but continued another six years...
“Tell me what you want and I will get it for you. What we do is like magic,” a former USGS official told auditors a former employee linked to the manipulation would say, according to Westerman.
Science, Oops
Nutrition experts and public health officials have been telling us for decades to eat less fat to lose weight. But it turns out a high-fat diet can actually help you lose weight, gain energy and fight obesity-associated conditions such as diabetes. Why did the experts lead us astray for so long? In short, weak science is to blame.
Anthony Fauci's National Institutes of Health
Puppy Torture
Oct 2021
Figure 1: Science
"Our investigators show that Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive," White Coat Waste told Changing America.
"They also locked beagles alone in cages in the desert overnight for nine consecutive nights to use them as bait to attract infectious sand flies."
Democrats Ignore Mask Mandate
Party of Science™ Members Spread Covid 19
July 2021
Figure 1: Having lectured Americans to wear masks, Democrat hypocrisy leads to (D)isease.
A staffer for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) blames the cohort of Texas Democratic legislators for giving him COVID-19, raising questions about a potential super-spreader event in the nation's capital...
The group of 50 Texas Democrats flouted federal regulations implemented by President Biden that require passengers on privately charted planes to wear masks for the duration of a flight.
Since their arrival in Washington, D.C., six of the Texas Democrats have tested positive for COVID-19. The whereabouts of the Texas Democrats are unknown, and the public does not know how many people they infected during their trip to the nation's capital...
"Saw a photo of a lot of them on a plane and none were wearing masks," The Federalist commentary writer Eddie Scarry tweeted. "Had me worried about how many people they might infect. I don’t know why they were so careless, with all these new variants. Should just follow the science."
Anti-Vaccine Liberals
"I think it’s going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and they should be."
-NY Governor Andrew Cuomo (D)
Liberals Messing With Science
The Left saw scientists as the new high priests, offering them prestige, money, and power. The power too often corrupted. Over and over, scientists yielded to the temptation to exaggerate their expertise and moral authority, sometimes for horrendous purposes.
-John Tierney
Scientists Messing With Politics
The Academy sponsored a report on the future of climate modeling. They apparently saw nothing wrong with staffing the study committee with professional climate modelers. The report advocated more money for climate modelers and urged hiring professional public relations people to present results to the public.
Politicians Messing With Science
"I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run." -Peter Thorne
Science Fraud
Junk science - worthless theories or data presented as fact - can be found everywhere, from scientific journals to media reports. It’s become a profitable industry, where scheming researchers get taxpayer-funded grants to find specific conclusions, then those manipulated and fake conclusions are reported back to the public as if they are real. -Ashe Schow
Bad Science
If you dispute the inflated and inconsistent claims of global warming alarmists, you are denounced as anti-science. You may even find yourself under investigation. But is catastrophic anthropogenic global warming actually a scientific theory at all? A fundamental principle of science is that a theory, to have any significance, must be falsifiable. -John Hinderaker
Scientific Management of Society
"Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as thoroughly… If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it."
-George Bernard Shaw
The Inquisition Lives On
I must altogether abandon the false opinion that the sun is the center of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the center of the world. -Recantation of Galileo
These same sneer-and-smear techniques predominate in the debate over climate change. President Obama promotes his green agenda by announcing that “the debate is settled,” and he denounces “climate deniers” by claiming that 97 percent of scientists believe that global warming is dangerous. His statements are false. -John Tierney
Tyson lists the anti-vaccine movement, alternative medicine and opposition to genetically modified organisms as examples of left wing anti-science. Most of these movements were kickstarted by leftist new agers in California, causing serious public health repercussions to the country. -William Hicks
“I realized that something seemed horribly amiss with a law that established a sweeping mandate which rested on assumptions, not scientific fact, that were unverified and might be quite wrong, even though they were commonly accepted and politically correct (and politically convenient).” -University of Michigan’s Energy Institute research professor John DeCicco