Check it out here. Key quote: "It's so important that we continue to fight against right-wing efforts to hijack and distort science for their own partisan purposes." Amen to that...
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I'm turning on moderation since the 9/11 truthers have shown up and desire to show me how they're not cranks by hijacking threads and linking their conspiracy sites.
The second part of Enemies of Reason, the two part series hosted by Dawkins, aired yesterday night
Mike the Mad Biologist suggests this:
I wonder if Clarke's interest in the war on science has anything to do with recent goings on at the Pentagon. There's a new book out by a defense department reporter and it's called Imaginary Weapons : A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld:
Sharon Weinberger says, among other things, that peer review in the Pentagon has deteriorated, and that scientific opinions are dismissed on a regular basis.
NPR has an interview: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5478373 She says some really interesting things about 11 minutes in and also around 19 minutes.