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Article: HOW GOP TWISTS SCIENCE.(EDITORIAL)
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- The Capital Times
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- January 13, 2006
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Byline: P.J. Slinger The Capital Times
I used to think that there were two things you never discussed in mixed company -- politics and religion.
It appears now that there's a third taboo subject -- science. I had always been under the impression that science was not open for debate, that facts are facts. Right?
Well, not so fast. The Republicans have decided that facts are only facts if they help the GOP political cause. And if they go against those tendencies, either political or religious, then those facts can be disregarded as "junk science."
Such is the meat and potatoes of Chris Mooney's book, "The Republican War on Science." It's ...