Dr. Conca concludes that science is not democratic and it is not supposed to be. When that happens we start burning books, burning witches and making some very bad decisions. We are not there yet, but we are seeing a very worrisome trend. President Obama touched on this very subject while speaking to the League of Conservation Voters Capital Dinner at the end of June, implying that science is being politicized. While on the surface this is not news, the extent to which our country is rejecting science over ideology is news, very bad news. Bad for business, bad for security and bad for the future.
During his speech, Obama lambasted members of Congress who espouse either an active distrust of our scientific community or passive ignorance of its findings. The distrust of scientists in the U.S. has become an effective political tool since the 1980s. But it is also extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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