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The American Sociological Association is Off its Rocker
On March 29th, the American Sociological Association (ASA) issued a press release titled “Study: Conservatives’ Trust in Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s: Trust in Science Has Also Declined Among People Who Frequently Attend Church.” It captured a lot of attention, and on April 2nd, it was 5th on Digg’s list of the most popular news items from the previous day in the “Top News in Politics” category. People who read and shared it think that conservatives and people of faith are Neanderthals. They also tend to be strong Obama supporters. I refer to them in various ways: sometimes I call them Obamanistas; other times I refer to them as useful idiots or idiots for short; and sometimes I just say that they are intellectually challenged. Actually, they may be all of those things, but that’s another story.
The problem with their thinking, or their lack of thinking to be more precise, is that conservatives and people of faith have no problem with science. However, they do object to junk science. That’s what hack scientists gin up and attempt to pass off as real science when they are trying to sell a point of view to the world that isn’t supported by facts. Global warming is the most telling current example of this, and as you would expect, the American Sociological Association’s press release dealt with it:
“You can see this distrust in science among conservatives reflected in the current Republican primary campaign,” said Gauchat, whose study appears in the April issue of the American Sociological Review. “When people want to define themselves as conservatives relative to moderates and liberals, you often hear them raising questions about the validity of global warming and evolution and talking about how ‘intellectual elites’ and scientists don’t necessarily have the whole truth.”
As you can see, the ASA links Republicans with conservatives and people of faith as though they were one and the same. That’s not true, but that’s beside the point. The issue here is that a highly regarded and often quoted “scientific association” feels the need to go public with a press release that distorts the facts about Republicans, people of faith, and science during a heated presidential campaign. The leaders at the ASA must be desperate if they would stoop so low as to utilize transparent smear tactics in hopes of influencing the election. Having said that, I spent my professional career as a university professor, and I realize that it’s difficult to imagine how low people who think they are smart will go when their worldview is challenged by facts.
I used the word “smear” reluctantly, because Republicans and people of faith aren’t ashamed of their beliefs. Indeed, they know that their beliefs set them apart, and they are proud to stand up for what is right at a time when deception is the order of the day. Even so, Obamanistas, useful idiots, and people of limited intellectual ability will delight in knowing that the ASA thinks that people who rely on facts instead of opinions are anti-science.
With regard to global warming, the facts tell us that man-made CO2 emissions are not driving global warming. In fact, they tell us that the globe isn’t warming and that it hasn’t been warming for more than a decade. It’s not a closely guarded secret. Business Insider even ran an article telling its readers that “The Globe Is Cooling — Here’s How To Profit From It.” Someone should point these things out to the people at the ASA so they can avoid looking like a bunch of brain-dead, anti-science Neanderthals.
I might excuse their ignorance if it were not for the fact that mountains of data prove how boneheaded their perspective is, and the facts just keep pouring in. For example, in the last week alone, these articles were published:
- Funding Agency Bias – A Short Summary
- McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset
- CSIRO alarmism more dangerous than CO2
- Climate Obstinately Refuses to Cooperate with Global Warming Alarmists
- Amazing Disconnect From The Scientific Process
- IPCC, CRU Climate Science Product of Public Relations and Peer Review
- “Earth Hour’s” global Propaganda Campaign
- Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again
Either the people at ASA don’t read and are totally ignorant, or they read selectively and reject facts that don’t support their cherished beliefs. I suspect that it’s some of both. Whatever the case may be, people who know the truth shouldn’t be ashamed to stand up for what they believe. Their reluctance to take stands in the past has led to the problems that we face today in a host of areas.
More than anything else, the 2012 presidential election is about right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, and science vs. pseudoscience. We know where the ASA stands. Do you know where you stand?
This SnyderTalk editorial first appeared in American Thinker on April 2, 2012.
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Thomas Jefferson
“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”
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Jeremiah 51: 1-3
Thus says Yahweh: “Behold, I am going to arouse against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer. I will dispatch foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her and may devastate her land; for on every side they will be opposed to her in the day of her calamity. Let not him who bends his bow bend it, nor let him rise up in his scale-armor; so do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction.”
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Hosea 4: 6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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Top 5 diggtm articles yesterday:
- Judge upset by Obama’s comments on health care law
- Oh no Sheriff Joe, you’re being sued by the Obama Administration for targeting Latinos
- Enough with the GOP’s Faith-Based Economics
- John Roberts Faces A Legacy-Defining Predicament On ‘Obamacare’
- Rush Limbaugh Blames Women Who Use Birth Control for Student Loan Debt
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The Jerusalem Post:
- Meanwhile, in Jordan…
- Israel Seeks Multi-Year U.S. Missile Defense Aid
- Israeli-U.S. Anti-Missile Drill Rescheduled for October
- Dagan: Israel should trust Obama to stop Iran nukes
- ‘IDF recently thwarted 10 terror plots from Sinai’
- PM slams author Grass for ‘ignorant’ Israel slurs
- Erdogan: Iran making excuses to stall talks
- Hebron families pitch tent outside disputed home
- Analysis: Israel’s options in Sinai are limited
- Over 30 reported dead in Syria despite truce talk
- 8 minors indicted for murder of Jewish man in Ramle
- Panel: Save 400bcm of natural gas for domestic use
- Egypt’s Brotherhood launches US diplomatic push
- Key China insurer to stop covering Iran oil tankers
Haaretz:
- Netanyahu slams Guenter Grass for controversial Israel poem
- Do the Iranian people have a say?
- Grad explodes near Eilat residential area; rocket apparently fired from Sinai
- Israel is powerless as terror groups target touristy border town
- Fatah faction beats Hamas in elections at Palestinian university
- U.S. report: Iran nuclear program hit obstacles in 2011
- Egypt security official: Rocket that struck Eilat wasn’t launched from Sinai
- Netanyahu: Israel will target those responsible for Eilat attack
Israel Hayom:
- Sinai is becoming a terrorist launching pad, Netanyahu says
- Power plays in Egypt
- Is ‘Palestine’ a state?
- A bone of ‘contention’
- Netanyahu and Barak were right
- Barak’s misuse of the law
- Barak draws fire over evacuation of Hebron house
- The Likud’s new enemy: Barak
- ‘Grass’ poem continues European tradition of blood libel’
- Israel to host Interpol conference for first time
- Meretz petitions court to allow public transportation on Shabbat
- Arab ministers boycott Adidas for sponsoring Jerusalem marathon
- Peres joins IDF soldiers to toast Passover holiday
- Twenty years of Israel-China relations get stamps of approval
- Introducing Iran’s international terrorist network commander
- Iran pulls the plug on interactive chat with US official
- NYPD beefs up security ahead of Passover holiday
- Israel ranks 5th for life expectancy among OECD countries
Other:
- How Jewish are the American Jews?
- Arabs don’t have to work
- Iran strike postponed again
- Key China Insurer to Stop Coverage of Tankers Carrying Iran Oil
- Israel to Make Do with Fewer Iron Dome Defense Systems
- Grad Rocket Hits Eilat
- Israel has few options for rocket fire from Egypt
- The Arab Spring Did America a Big Favor
- Arab Racism Prevents Peace
- Iranian Complicity in 9/11?
- Hamas: “Defend Al Aqsa Mosque from the Jews”
- The “Al-Aksa Is in Danger” Libel: The History of a Lie
- Egypt Muslim Brotherhood Presidential Candidate to Push for Islamic Law
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Business:
- EURO DEBT SUPPLY-Spain worries will aid German sale, weigh on Italy
- Retail sales climb healthy 4.3% in March
- US unemployment claims hit 4-year low of 357K
- The Confusion Over Stock Dividends
- Bullard: Fed Sent an ‘Unwarranted Pessimistic Signal’ About Economy
- Silver: Poor Man’s Gold Turning to Fool’s Gold?
- Bailed-out Portugal’s recovery program is on track but big risks remain, IMF says
- Portugal’s recession may alter deficit goals-IMF
World:
- Jihadist Hafiz Saeed Speaks to Journalists
- UN pressures Syria to heed peace plan
- Greeks grapple with the meaning of a very public suicide
- Burma calls on US and EU to honour ‘promise’ to lift sanctions
- Brotherhood candidate registers
- Afghan police officers targeted as country struggles with transition
- Mali Rebels Declare Cease-Fire After Seizing North
- Five May Face Death Penalty As 9/11 Trial Resumes At Gitmo
- Sarkozy promises squeeze on spending, tax hikes if he wins a second term
- Pakistan’s PM Criticizes US Bounty on Militant
- India army chief Gen Singh says troop report ‘stupid’
- US to sink Japanese ‘ghost ship’ set adrift in tsunami
- How China could counter Obama’s Asia ‘pivot’
United States:
- ‘What a Bully President Obama Has Suddenly Become,’ Says SC Gov.
- Obama: Jesus Is ‘A Son of God’
- Obama Accuses GOP-Majority House of ‘Attempt to Impose a Radical Vision on Our Country’
- Iran: A Threat Inside America?
- Appeals court hearing challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
- Romney leads Santorum by five in Pennsylvania
- Rick Santorum on Pennsylvania: ‘We are going to win’
- Your tax tuition dollars at work
- Jay Carney on Obama’s Court remarks: It’s the “reverse of intimidation”
- Justice Department faces deadline from Texas judges
- VP buzz about Paul Ryan grows louder
- Obama: When I struggle, I just think of Jesus’ agony in the garden
Opinions:
- Michael Tomasky: Was Wisconsin Romney’s Victory? Or Paul Ryan’s?
- Victor Davis Hanson: Freedom or Fairness in 2012?
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: Hope For the Dead
- Cal Thomas: Inspiration Plus Perspiration Equals Success
- Reince Priebus: The Do-Nothing Democrats
- Daniel J. Mitchell: Socialism for Kids, the Obama Version
- Emmett Tyrrell: Romney Is Coming On Strong
- Jerry Bowyer: Problems With the Truth: Confessions of a 22-Year Rick Santorum Observer
- Bob Beauprez: Who are America’s Not-So-Friendly Bankers?
- Michael F. Cannon: Obamacare in the Supreme Court
- John Browne: BRICS Challenge to West
- Mike Shedlock: Fuel Index Has Bad News for Economy
- Mark Calabria: A Federal Department to Regulate Financial Journalists
- Dana Milbank: Romney, up close and impersonal
- George Will: Time to legalize drugs?
- WaPo Editorial: Government, derail this gravy train
- Clifford D. May: Lone-wolf terrorists are a growing threat. Moderate Muslims are among those in the crosshairs
- Dana Milbank: From tracking al-Qaeda to tracking the wayward spouse
- Dick Morris: Santorum’s May Myth
- Jeff Jacoby: An uncivil income tax system
- Charlie Spiering: Santorum knows his math
- Timothy P. Carney: Mitt should bat for free markets, not business
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- Romney sharpens attack on Obama
- Romney’s New York team looks to deliver knockout punch to Santorum
- In India, a politician delivers growth while sowing division
- Afghanistan’s rich and powerful flaunt their ‘dancing boy’ companions
- In Iraq, concern over shrinking rights
- Need to save a teacher’s job or add a school curriculum? Ask parents to pay.
- Google gives sneak peek of long-rumored glasses
- Anonymous hacks Chinese government sites
- Economic austerity worries grow about Spain
- JPMorgan settles federal complaint for $20 million
- USA Today requires staff to take unpaid week off
- Ex-presidential candidate McGovern hospitalized
- Ex-New Orleans officers sentenced in shootings
- Al-Qaeda forum back online after blackout
- Suspected 9/11 plotters to face death penalty trial
- Whitney Houston autopsy offers new details
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- Salehi optimistic about Iran-5+1 talks
- ‘No country would have been Iran’s enemy without U.S. pressure’
- Reuters has admitted to mistake in Iranian female ninjas story: official
- Majlis confirms receipt of impeachment motion against labor minister
- MP says Rafsanjani considers direct cash subsidy a social threat
- Proposed missile shield in Persian Gulf a U.S.-Israeli move: defense minister
- Majlis minority faction meets Rafsanjani
- $30b will be invested in Iranian oil industry this year: minister
- Iran to double power exports to Turkey within 45 days
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- The Positivist President?
- Savage New Territory: Trickle Down Tyranny
- Obama Misquotes Bible on Wealth Redistribution
- Democrats Responsible for Black Culture of Anger
- Climategate Heads to Court
- King Kennedy
- Critique of (Im-)Pure Conservative Labels
- Why Broccoli Matters
- More Evidence That Obama Is Learning Disabled
- Only One President Has Ever Ignored A SCOTUS Order
- Madison, Obama and the Commerce Clause
- NY Times in dreamland about the Palestinians
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- The Left’s Frontal Assault on the Supreme Court
- Santa Monica Students Say Pepper Spraying a PR Victory
- Moving America Forward
- Obama’s Inequality Illusion
- Bringing Life Back to the Party
- The Brain Dead Israeli Left
- A Crisis of Competence
- Explaining Judicial Review to the Left
- Obama’s Knife in Israel’s Back
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- Can Clark Durant Replicate Rick Snyder’s Success in Michigan?
- Lee Smith: “Who Leaked Israeli Iran Plan? Some analysts say the White House leaked details of Israel’s alleged attack plan to discourage the Jewish state. Others call the idea ‘absurd.’”
- ‘Same Tired Rhetoric’
- New York Times: Israel = Iran
- In Obama’s Constitutional History, What’s a Quarter-Century?
- Year 104 and Counting: A Cubs Fan Survival Strategy
- KSM to Be Tried by Military Commission at Gitmo
- Flunking Constitutional Law
- Hoodie in the White House
- Races to Watch: Indiana Senate Primary
- Romney’s Latest Ad Warns of Obama ‘Attack Machine’
- That Dreadful Time of Year
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- China’s military rise
- The Yangon spring
- Reimposing order
- Rewriting the rules
- Where Bo goes
- A princeling’s downfall reveals the rottenness at the heart of Chinese politics
- The dismissal of a powerful chief sends tremors across China’s political landscape
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- Greek unrest after man’s suicide
- US set to relax Burma sanctions
- Google augmented glasses unveiled
- New Syria clashes as UN team due
- Mali’s rebels ‘to stop fighting’
- N Korea ‘needle assassin’ jailed
- Senegal post for Youssou Ndour
- Rocket hits Israeli city of Eilat
- Chile court approves Patagonia dam
- Katrina police jailed over shootings
- Asia shares down on economy fears
- Grounded NZ ship owners charged
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- Renewed clashes between Libyan militias, 26 dead
- Trouble brewing: UK clamps down on bargain boozing
- 2,500 US marines in Australia ‘not a military base’
- America’s dangerous game in Yemen
- Damascus: Syrian troops start withdrawal
- ‘EU in mortal danger’
- Friends of Syria undermine peace process – Lavrov
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- Violence continues in Syria despite diplomatic efforts
- Mali’s rebels announce end to military operation
- U.S. charges five 9/11 terrorist suspects
- Obama signs bill targeting insider-trading by congressmen
- Drug spoon, Coke found in Whitney Houston’s hotel room
- Ex-Tunisian first lady to publish her memoir
- London Heathrow airport unveils Olympic terminal
- Former Real Madrid hero, Zarraga, dies aged 81
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- The L.A. Times Should Release the Khalidi Tape for Passover
- It’s Not the Constitution, Stupid
- A Tale of Two Countries
- New Film Exposes Northeastern’s Radical Holocaust Program
- ‘Why We Need Big, Bold Science Fiction’
- Get Your Federal Tax Receipt (Along With Class Warfare and Misdirections from the Obama White House)
- West on Obama: ‘The Fella Doth Protest Too Much in Desperation’
- Santorum Has Lost — And I Can Prove It
- One of Five Dollars Flowing into American Pockets Comes from Government
- Rep. Darrell Issa Investigating Union Political Spending
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http://www.nationalreview.com/
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- Benedict XVI in Cuba
- Not ‘All of the Above’
- Save the Sand-Dune Lizard?
- Mitt Romney, Underdog?
- A Breather from Regulations
- Texas’s $10,000 Degree
- Rick’s Long Goodbye
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- Land day protest, Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank, 30.3.2012
- Hamas Interior Minister Slams Egypt over Fuel Shortage in Gaza Strip: We are Egyptians!
- Burma soldiers ‘rape and murder’ Kachins
- ‘Wanted man’ mocks $10m bounty
- One-minute World News
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- The Miracle of Modern Jewish Experience
- Another Liberal Libel of the Court
- Washington Helpless as Islamists Play for Keeps in Egypt
- Santorum May Win PA, But Lose Delegates
- Iran’s Stalling Tactics Humiliate Obama
- Maureen Dowd, Light as Air
- Time to Take Action in Pakistan
- Ruling: Senate Can’t Dodge Unpopular Budget Votes
- Afghan Deal Would Be a Win-Win
- McCain Weighs in on the Veepstakes
- Friedman’s Clueless Middle East Twofer
- What Happens When You Assume
- Slaughter Spikes in Syria
- Obama’s Inept Aides
- Appeals Court Orders DOJ to Clarify “Judicial Restraint” Position
- Win in PA Isn’t Optional for Romney
- The Week Obama Jumped the Shark
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If You Voted for Obama in 2008 to Prove You’re Not a Racist, You Need to Vote for Someone Else in 2012 to Prove You’re Not an Idiot explains why voters in the United States need to elect someone besides Barack Obama to lead them. Whoever is elected President of the United States in 2012 will have to contend with the monumental problems that Obama’s misguided policies have caused both at home and abroad. One thing is certain, though. It should not be Barack Obama. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.