The Republican War on Science is not a war on science, after
all. It is
href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091907R.shtml">a war
on reality itself.
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Today, French and other European dignitaries gathered at the site of Verdun, where an eight month battle between the French and Germans was carried out during World War I, also known as the Great War, or the War to End All Wars. This is Armistice Day, marking the end of that war.
From a reader in Western Massachusetts:
10 Reasons to Oppose the Escalation of War in Afghanistan
No money down, but the payments go on forever. The
only
people who win are the bankers and the contractors. We make
it easy to get in. But like herpes and condominiums, it is
hard to get rid of.
This sort of thing is only important to people who are part of the reality-based community.
If they are at war with reality, then that's part of reality, hence they are at war with themselves. Being at war with themselves is also part of reality, so they are at war with their own war. (Wars, actually.) Continue ad infinitum...
Turtles all the way down?
The real war on reality waged by the Republicans is powered by the notion that objective science is a myth: All science is ideological. I guess they picked that up from the Soviets.
There is, I suppose, some legitimacy to what this guy is saying even though it isn't especially novel. He does have a way of obfuscating what he is trying to say with unnecessarily multisyllabic words.