Naomi Oreskes, a professor at University of California - San Diego, who attended the meeting, remarked, "Those of us who grew up in the sixties, when we put men on the moon, now have to watch as every Republican candidate for this year's presidential election denies the science behind climate change and evolution. That is a staggering state of affairs and it is very worrying."
Professor Oreskes added, "Our present crisis over the rise of anti-science has been coming for a long time and we should have seen it coming. It has taken the scientific community a long time to realize what it is up against. In the past, it thought the problem was just a matter of education. All its practitioners had to do was make an effort to reach out and talk to teachers, the public and business leaders. Then these people would see the issues and understand the need for action. But now they are beginning to realize what they are really up against: massive organized attempts to undermine scientific data by people for whom the data represents a threat to their status quo. Given the power of these people, scientists will have their work cut out dealing with them."
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Good grief. I suppose if they can be delusional that the sky is falling they can be delusional about Republicans being "anti-science." Does Naomi not understand that to disallow dissent as she does is anti-science?
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