FORMER head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX, Maurice Newman, writes a must read opinion piece in the The Australian providing further evidence that the «global warming movement is really the triumph of
ideology over science»...
But it will take time and experience before we accept the global warming movement is really the triumph of
ideology over science.
Many of them are nothing but Democratic operatives with PhD's, or Greenpeace moles with PhD's, and sadly, far too often their allegiance is to
their ideology over their science.
Not exact matches
Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power
over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (
ideology masquerading as
science).
In his inaugural address, the President pledged to «restore
science to its rightful place,» and he received a standing ovation during an early speech before National Academy of Science in which he said, «The days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.
science to its rightful place,» and he received a standing ovation during an early speech before National Academy of
Science in which he said, «The days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.
Science in which he said, «The days of
science taking a back seat to ideology are over.
science taking a back seat to
ideology are
over.»
A. Cho's story «Commitments,
ideology clash
over research spending» (News Focus, 11 November 2011, p. 754) points out far - reaching priority choices that may have to be made by the Office of
Science in a flat budget scenario that can not accommodate ongoing domestic projects as well as the increasing contribution to the $ 23 billion international fusion experiment, ITER, in France.
Science is social, but when political
ideology takes precedence
over experimental evidence the results can be fatal.
A Los Angeles Times article few days ago provided a fresh look at the tussle
over global warming in classrooms, focusing on a move by the National Center for
Science Education to add a substantial climate component to its longstanding effort to keep
ideology and religion out of classes on biology and evolution.
Too often, the classroom has been a battleground in which
science loses out to
ideology — either directly, as with fights to equate biblical accounts of creation with research illuminating natural selection, or indirectly, when fears of such fights cause teachers or administrators in a more subtle way to skip or skim
over science that has big implications for society.
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.
If the context behind the arguments is not included, the public just sees dispute, and can simply lump a
science fight with those
over abortion, gun rights, energy policy and other issues framed by
ideology or values as much as (or more than) data.
The president chose the politics of a few
over sound
science and fundamental economics,
ideology over the national interest, to cause a stunning defeat for the United States, American energy security and America's energy partnership with Canada — and a stunning victory for countries like Venezuela, which will benefit from the U.S. saying no to the oil Keystone XL would bring from Canada and the U.S. Bakken region.
The Democrats» response has been to promise to «let
science guide us, not
ideology», to «make scientific decisions based on facts, not
ideology», and that «the days of
science taking a back seat to
ideology are
over».
Hansen chose
ideology, activism, stagecraft and handcuffs
over science.
As such, I concluded that if identification is granted precedence
over evaluation then
science — which deals primarily with the identification of reality — must be granted precedence
over politics and
ideology — which attempt to provide guidance to our actions in how we deal with one - another — which is itself derivative of how we live in relation to reality.
Especially after Obama declared, to much fanfare, that «the days of
science taking a back seat to
ideology are
over»?
Public Health Ignored;
Ideology Trumps
Science — Emergency Contraception Is Safe, Effective and Meets All FDA Criteria For
Over - the - Counter Status