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Republican Party, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Evolution, Creationism, War on Science, Magical Thinking, Michele Bachmann
Jonathan Bernstein makes the pertinent point about Rick Santorum's announcement that he's running for President: Santorum’s 2012 launch is only the beginning of the craziness. So Rick Santorum has now kicked off his presidential run by claiming that Paul Ryan’s plan to end Medicare as we know it didn’t go ...
Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Creationism, War on Science, Magical Thinking, Rick Santorum
Steve Silberman has an excellent piece on Why the GOP Hates the National Science Foundation. The truth is, the current incarnation of the GOP, frozen in its pose of perpetually indignant outrage, doesn’t want additional perspective, more data and nuance, and — Heaven forbid — dissenting voices. The impulse to ...
Jacob Weisberg asks: Birtherism, the debt ceiling, climate change, evolution: Are Republicans losing their grip on reality? At a press conference last week, someone asked Chris Christie for his views on evolution vs. creationism. "That's none of your business," the New Jersey governor barked in response. This minor incident, which barely ...
Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Denial, Creationism, War on Science, Magical Thinking
The details of the budget deal reached by Republicans and Democrats have been released, and the cuts the Republicans demanded in the Environmental Protection Agency are absolutely grotesque. This is a very clear attack on the scientific institutions that study climate change, and a very clear attempt to remove restrictions ...
Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Denial, War on Science, EPA
If you had any remaining doubt that the Republican Party has become the party of science denial, today's vote in the House should settle the matter for good: House GOP rejects amendments that say climate change is real. Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) offered an amendment Tuesday that ...
Republican Party, GOP, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Denial, War on Science
In the latest GOP offensive against science, the new head of the Environment and Economy Subcommittee will be, astoundingly, John Shimkus. Yes, that John Shimkus. The religious fanatic who believes we don’t need to worry about climate change, because the book of Genesis says God will decide when the world is ...
Republican Party, GOP, Religious Right, Anti-Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Denial, John Shimkus, War on Science
In the Republican Party's rapidly escalating War on Science, James Inhofe is one of the Generals. A fundamentalist Christian with ties to the Dominionist movement, Inhofe has arguably done more than any other right wing politician to attack and delegitimize the science of global warming, and in this video he ...
James Inhofe, Anti-Science, Denial, GOP, Right Wing, Climate Change, AGW, Science, Global Warming, War on Science
House Republicans are escalating their attack on the science of global warming with a plan to kill the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Meanwhile in Virginia, Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is rabidly pursuing his persecution of climate researcher Michael Mann, using other Republicans in the ...
Denial, Global Warming, Climate Change, Bad Craziness, Anti-Science, Extremism, GOP, Republican Party, War on Science
Well, isn't this lovely. The next target of the Republican Party is apparently going to be the National Science Foundation. New majority leader Eric Cantor is inviting the public (via his YouCut website) to search through the NSF's federal grants and report those eggheads if they're doin' somethin' stoopit like ...
Eric Cantor, National Science Foundation, Bad Craziness, Anti-Science, Extremism, GOP, RNC, Republican Party, War on Science