Liberals Blinded by Science

by Bob Patterson

 

The Republicans would have folks believe that there was a time when Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Professor Emmett L. Brown (Christopher Lloyd) used their time travel machine to visit the future, see that global warming was happening, and then traveled back to the Bush era and convinced the Democratic Party of 2008 that the drowning of polar bears was being caused by a catastrophic, permanent, world-wide heat wave and, since they were both scientists, that constituted scientific proof it was happening. Thanks to the efforts of the conservative talk radio shows, no good patriotic troop supporting American has been gullible enough to mistake the melting ice cap bologna for believable facts.

How long did it take O. J. Simpson's legal team to get the jury to dismiss the DNA evidence as nonsensical mumbo-jumbo?

The Republicans will, under enhanced interrogation conditions, admit that there are certain notable exceptions to the truism that all "scientists" are, to varying degrees, clones of Doc Brown, as for instance when they need polling, motivational research, psychology, and advanced cybernetics, for insured, guaranteed election results. Then, suddenly, scientists become reliable sources of needed information and counseling.

When a respected British medical magazine, the Lancet, conducts a survey that finds out that the number of Iraqis who have died in the attempt to liberate them, is much higher than most American sources site; then it's time to again summon up the image of scientists as portrayed by Moe, Larry, and Curly (Nyuck nyuck)?

Do oil companies use guys with divining rods to find a good area to try some exploratory drilling or do they use some devices dreamed up by the descendants of Doctor Frankenstein? ("Oil drilling in Yosemite today will lower your gasoline prices by tonight!")

If a very wealthy Republican had to face the ordeal of convincing a jury that he had not committed a crime, would he sanction a large expenditure by the battery of attorneys handling his defense, if they wanted to hire an expert in jury selection or would he denounce such a maneuver as a waste of his precious funds on "voodoo science"?

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