War on Science

Think Again: The Conservative War on Knowledge

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.24.2012

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Eric Alterman

The United States finds itself in an odd political predicament. One of its two major political parties is increasingly dominated by a faction of people that simply denies those aspects of reality it finds to be inconvenient.

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What Olympia Snowe and the Media Get Wrong About Polarization in American Politics

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.01.2012

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Jonathan Weiler

The Olympia Snowes of the world can complain all they want about the lack of middle ground. But plaints like this misapprehend fundamentally the dynamics of American politics. We're polarized largely because one party -- Snowe's own -- has simply gone off the deep end.

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The Republican War on Reality

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 12.30.2011

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Jonathan Weiler

What's bracing to see in 2011 is that facts themselves represent the same impediment for conservatives that political correctness did two decades ago -- as an appalling constraint on the right's God-given right to unabashed condemnation.

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'Outlaw Mother's Milk' Says Drug Czar

Don Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Parker

After declaring on Wednesday in Fresno that "marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit," Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office...

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Beyond Stem Cells and Global Warming: Media Ignore Bush Administration's Widespread Interference with Science

John W. Delicath | Posted 05.25.2011

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John W. Delicath

The fact that the Bush administration routinely allowed politics to trump science in the policy-making process is well-known and extensively documented. Yet, the media continue to act otherwise.

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NYT's Tierney Concerned About Use of Science -- In the Obama Administration

John W. Delicath | Posted 05.25.2011

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John W. Delicath

While skepticism is a virtue for any reporter, you'll have to excuse me if John Tierney's skepticism about the potential politicization of science under Obama seems oddly misplaced.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, 2000 Election, Solar Moratorium, Kbr, Bush White House, Antonin Scalia, North Pole, UN Probe Civilian Deaths, Al Gore, Iraqi Oil Ministry, Iraq War Funding, War on Science, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Global Warming, Exxon Valdez, Oregon, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

U.S. mayors resolve to avoid burning dirty tar sands oil, Bush signs $162B war spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, Afghanistan civilian death toll rises sharply, Scalia still blames Gore for the 2000 election debacle.

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