Oct 22, 2012
Is it true that progressives are just as anti-science as
conservatives? According to Alex Berezow, editor of
RealClearScience and associate editor of RealClearReligion, and
Hank Campbell, founder of the Science 2.0 network, say they are.
From the publisher's description of their book Science Left Behind:
Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left: To
listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem
cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth
mentioning—and the only people who are anti-science are
conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of
their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic biological
research, and even life-saving vaccines come naturally to many
progressives. These are positions supported by little more than
junk-science and paranoid thinking. Now for the first time, science
writers Dr. Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell have drawn open the
curtain on the left’s fear of science. As Science Left Behind
reveals, vague inclinations about the wholesomeness of all things
natural, the unhealthiness of the unnatural, and many other
seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation. The
results: public health crises, damaging and misguided policies, and
worst of all, a new culture war over basic scientific facts—in
which the left is just as culpable as the right. This Sunday,
Berezow joins us on Atheists Talk to discuss his book.