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http://www.crisispapers.org/essays7w/22things.htm
22. It's Faith Over Science, Myth Over Reality. We know that this
attitude ("my mind is made up, don't bother me with the facts") shows
up most openly in how science is disregarded by the Bush
Administration in favor of faith-based thinking. A good example would
be the issue of global warming. Some of this non-curiosity about
reality may be based in fundamentalist religious, even Apocalyptic,
beliefs. Much of Bush's bashing of science is designed as payback to
his fundamentalist base, but the scary part is that a good share of
the time he actually seems to believe what he's saying, about
evolution vs. creationism, stem-cell research, abstinence education,
censoring the rewriting of government scientific reports that differ
from the Bush party line, cutbacks in R&D grants for the National
Science Foundation, etc., ad nauseum. This closed-mind attitude helps
explain, on a deeper level, why things aren't working out in Iraq, or
anywhere else for that matter. Reality, to them, is an annoyance that
is best ignored. |
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