Republicans and anti-science: count the ways

Let's do a summary of the Republicans' war with science.  

Republicans don't believe many scientifically proven facts

It's sad to write this particular blog because science denial defys my understanding. Nevertheless, it's time to list some of the Republican "anti-science" in one succinct narrative. If we don't keep tabs on anti-science, the ridiculous cacophony of invented truths will drown out those who expect rational arguments to speak truth to resistant Republicans.

It's impossible to explain why Republicans have made an ideologial decision to politicize science. Their negative reaction to emperical data, in either support of or to debunk scientific theories and facts, like "global warming", are counter intuitive. Honestly, the purpose of the "scientific process" is to prove, and even replicate sources of information, for the purpose of eliminating bias, or "politics" during the creation of theories and validating facts.

Nevertheless, Republicans have challenged even the most basic scientific theories. For example:

1.  Creationsim - American Republicans are the only people in the world who support the preposterous fantasy that the world was created in seven days, as described in a story told in the Old Testament book of Genesis. In fact, scientists including archeologists and astrophyisists laugh at Creationists. Unfortunately, these fundamentalist concrete thinkers are serious about creationism. In fact, Creationists aren't laughing, at all, about their unproven theory describing how the earth was created. Indeed, Creationists do not believe in the science of astronomy or geology.

2.  Gun-violence and public health- American Republicans do not believe guns are the cause of gun-violence. In fact, they even deny that gun-violence is a public health danger, although scientifically collected data documents 12, 574 Americans were killed in 2014 by guns.  Republicans believe the morbidities caused by gun-violence are caused by perverted people; but absolutely refuse to believe that the root cause of the deaths are guns.  In fact, Republicans deny the emperical data that directly correlates the number of guns available to people with the death of 12,574 Americans, in just one year. If influenza were the cause of thousands of deaths, the Republicans would be demanding quarantine of the people with the virus. On the other hand, Republicans don't see guns as being analguous to deadly germs.

3.  Global warming and climate change -  Republicans believe climate change is just a routine meteorological event. In other words, in spite of the rapid rise in the earth's temperature, related to human activities, they refuse to believe the dangerous impact of the warming earth. In fact, global warming could end life as we know it because people can't live in air we can't breath or in heat we're unable to tolerate, plus the myriad of other and unforseen consequences. Republicans simply deny "global warming"....period. Unbelievably, no rational discussion or emperical data will change their minds. Meanwhile, the world famous writer Ernest Hemingway would be challenged to write "The Snows of Mount Kilimanjaro" today, because there's just so little of it left to inspire creative prose. In other words, the snows have melted.  

There are other anti-science nonsense theories harbored by Republcians, but each one is incredulous. For example, consider the anti-science about womens' health and conception. In fact, although some Republican believe that women have a mysterious ability to prevent the fertilizaton of an egg. There's no way a woman can will away the fertilizaton of an egg during ovulation, except if she happens to be taking birth control pills. In fact, women can, unfotunately, become pregnant as a result of rape.  

It's time for Americans to fire the anti-science Republican party. Instead, it's time to form another political party, one where emperical scientific data are accepted and public policy responds appropriately to facts.


Anti-science is as regressive as saying the earth is flat. Republicans must keep pace with scientific data rather than deny its impact. Otherwise, Americans will wind up behind progressive nations like India, and China, that know, by their own populatons' oral histories, that the earth was absolutely created many millions of years ago.  

Ted Cruz might want to hire Mary Matalin as campaign strategist - they can both "Cruz to loose"

Republican friend of the Bush family, pundit Mary Matalin, is now predicting Ted Cruz will be the Republican 2016 presidential nominee.  Meanwhile, Matalin has abandoned her loyalty to the Bush family.  Hello? This is the proverbial cliche, "With a friend like Matalin, who needs enemies?"

Mary Matalin is a Republican strategist who claims to be a friend of the nice Bush family.  She's acting like she wants a job with "Cruz to loose".

In an interview with The Hill, Matalin said, “My money right now is on Ted Cruz.  Again, I’m unaligned, but I think he speaks to the myriad factions of conservatism: Constitutionalists, Libertarians, the social conservatives.”

Moreover, “I think he’s whip-smart, as evidenced by his debate appearances, and he’s a true, true, true constitutionalist, and everything’s lining up for him,” she added.

Oh paaaleeze Matalin!  You are nooooo  friend to the popular Bush family when you abandom them to give interviews, like you did to The Hill.  Shame on you. The Bush family deserves better from a friend.

If I were a friend of the Bush family who was asked to speak to The Hill, my approach would be to discuss the electability of Jeb Bush compared to the unelectability of "Cruz to loose".  In fact, the right wing Republican Texas Senator Cruz  believes in the anti science of creationism, he was born in Canada but is anti immigration, he wants America to revert to the economics of the archiac gold standard and he calls his democratically elected Senatorial colleagues a "cartel". There are entirely too many idiotic inconsistencies in the Cruz to loose campaign.  His theories about nearly everything are backwards. How can he claim to create jobs but then advocate for a return to the Gold Standard?  

Clearly, "Cruz to loose" has no idea how macro-economics works. In fact, the Cruz support for the gold standard shows a lack of confidence in the very strong US dollar.   

Matalin might be looking for a job as campaign manager for Cruz to loose.  Perfect for her.  She can echo all the policies her friends in the Bush family find objectionable.  Bush is in favor of a path to citizenship for immigrants and it would be very difficult for their industrial defense contrating friends to make fortunes if the government based payment on the value of gold. Moreover, the Bush family are not creationists because they know better.

It seems to me Matalin would like to consider all of the above policies as being somehow good for America. Both Matalin and Cruz are echoing an unenlightened vision for America.. Conservatives who believe in the Gold Standard know this policy will cause hording, and only a few people will be able to own wealth.  It's a horrible economic policy.  

I certainly wouldn't want to call Mary Matalin my friend, if she tells the media that "Cruz to loose" will be the Republican presidential nominee.  Rather than build up the campaign of the right wing extremist Cruz, she should hold her friend Jeb Bush up to the light and show how he is the electible candidate.  

Mary Matalin, a person like you can't be trusted to be a friend.

Anti-Science Republicans Appear to Need Arithmetic Lesson on Election Outcome

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/11/19/1213261/marco-rubio-flirts-with-creationism-says-hes-unsure-how-old-the-earth-is/


President Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012, to lead our nation for 4 more years. Yet, thousands of Republicans recoiled into denial rather than accept this outcome.  Many, led by Vice-Presidential candidate Congressman Paul Ryan, seem to act like the election never really happened.  They appear poised to return to government "obstruction as usual".  

Now, it turns out, one Republican, the Florida Senator Rubio, even courts voters who support the Biblical theory of Creationsim, over the sciences of geology and archaeology. Could this courting of Creationists mean Rubio wants to appeal to Christian right wing voters so he can garner support for his own future Presidential bid? Well, I can't imagine any anti science politicians as a leaders of the free world. Nevertheless, Rubio is courting Creationists.

Republicans who continue suggesting belief in Creationism is somehow a valid science, probably have a hard time understanding how their political party lost the 2012 presidential election.  

In other words, politicians like Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, along with former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, would rather believe our earth was created, exactly as we know it today, in 7 Biblical days, rather than accept the science of geologists who have determined the earth evolved since the creation, 4.5 billion years ago.  

Regardless of their resistance to accepting scientific discovery, Creationists are still capable of understanding simple arithmetic.  So, Creationists like Rubio and Huckabee need to know and understand this outcome.  Americans can not move backward:

332B.OBAMA*Popular Vote:51%62,615,406

206M.ROMNEYPopular Vote:48%59,142,004