> issue, and virtually nobody is happy with them. > Genetically modified foods are a huge, Huge, *Huge* Successful war on science is the one waged by the Left. Each of these abuses is far more significant than anythingĭone by conservatives, and there are plenty of others. Many social scientists from the recent revolutions in genetics and Studying the genetic underpinnings of human behavior, which has cut off Third, there’s the resistance in academia to Hampered and would be devastated if the activists succeeded in banningĪnimal experimentation. Second, there’s the campaign by animal-rightsĪctivists against medical researchers, whose work has already been Which stifled research into what could have been a second Green That leftists “here and there” have been guilty of “science abuse.”įirst, there’s the Left’s opposition to genetically modified foods, The enterprise of science, he offers only three examples.Īll three are in his first chapter, during Mooney’s brief acknowledgment Progressives like himself, but if you’re looking for serious damage to Scientists and politicians who oppose government policies favored by Stem-cell research, but that hardly put a stop to it (and not muchĬhanged after Barack Obama reversed the policy). Bush refused federal funding for embryonic Has been silenced? Yes, the book reveals that Republican creationistsĮxist, but they don’t affect the biologists or anthropologists studyingĮvolution. Vital research has been corrupted or suppressed? What scientific debate Where are the scientists who lost their jobs or their funding? What This war that I had at the outset: Where are the casualties? I finished it with the same question about Read the Left’s indictments, including Chris Mooney’s bestseller, The That sounds strange to Democrats who decry Republican creationists andĬall themselves the “party of science.” But I’ve done my homework. Conservatives just don’t have that much impact on science. My friends don’t like my answer: because there isn’t much to writeĪbout. Pseudoscience on the left, they say, but why aren’t you anĮqual-opportunity debunker? Why not write about conservatives’ threat to Science journalism to the sins of the Right. My liberal friends sometimes ask me why I don’t devote more of my John Tierney - science columnist, New York Times The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress.
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