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Archive for August, 2011
Sprite-Producing Lightning-Ionosphere Coupling and Associated Low-Frequency Phenomena August 30th, 2011
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Erratum to: Unitary Representations of Super Lie Groups and Applications to the Classification and Multiplet Structure of Super Particles August 30th, 2011
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Erratum to: Unitary Representations of Super Lie Groups and Applications to the Classification and Multiplet Structure of Super Particles
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory ErratumPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s00220-011-1332-8Authors
C. Carmeli, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, ItalyG. Cassinelli, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, ItalyA. Toigo, Dipartimento di Matematica “Francesco Brioschi”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, ItalyV. S. Varadarajan, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, Box 951555, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, USA
Journal Communications in Mathematical PhysicsOnline ISSN 1432-0916Print ISSN 0010-3616
Electrical and Thermal Transport Properties of Transition Metal Substituted in Electron-Doped La0.9Te0.1Mn1−xMxO3 Compounds (M=Cr and Al) August 30th, 2011
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Radio loudness of high-redshift (z≥3) quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey August 30th, 2011
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Application of self-organizing map to stellar spectral classifications August 30th, 2011
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The increasingly antiscience Republican candidates August 29th, 2011
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A lot of folks on the web are buzzing about Paul Krugman’s NYT OpEd today about the antiscience convictions of the current cohort of Republican candidates running for President of these United States. I find little fault in what Krugman wrote. Each candidate on the right is simply scrambling to be even more antiscience than the next.
Of course, if that “next” is Rick Perry, then I doubt anyone could sprint away from reality more than he does. He’s a dyed-in-the-wool creationist who apparently has no problem narrowing or stepping well over the line with separation of Church and State, and when it comes to denying climate change he also apparently had no problem with simply making things up (Krugman calls his statements “vile”, and the Washington Post blog The Fact Checker rated his claims as “whoppers”). Perry’s stance on other big issues is similar.
And he’s far and away the front runner, which leaves me shaking my head.
Where Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum stand is obvious. Newt Gingrich — who claims he’s a fan of science — equivocates when it comes to Intelligent Design and evolution as well as global warming, and was instrumental in defunding the House Office of Technology Assessment in 1995.
Even the candidates people are calling “moderate” are falling over themselves to appease the base when it comes to science and the lack thereof. Mitt Romney tried to eat his cake and have it too about accepting evolution, and even Ron Paul has now distanced himself from evolution.
Which brings up Jon Huntsman, which is where things get truly maddening. He recently said he thinks both evolution and global warming are real. This makes me sad, and scared. Why? Because this statement is considered bold.
How can it be bold to accept reality, to not deny the overwhelming evidence, and to agree with the vast, vast majority of scientists studying the very topics of discussion?
Huntsman wants his party not to be “the antiscience party”. But that shouldn’t be bold. That should be common sense.
As it happens, Huntsman is trailing in the polls by a nearly insurmountable distance. That’s certainly not caused by his statement — he’s been behind for a long time — and may not even be correlated directly; as one Republican strategist commented, he may simply be saying things to try to stand out from the crowd.
But if true, think on that: he’s making clear, logical, rational statements in order to separate himself from the other candidates.
And that’s where we are.
Related posts:
- Did Rick Perry just admit to violating the U.S. Constitution?
- Update: Reality wins for sure in Texas
- Case closed: “ClimateGate” was manufactured
- Michele Bachmann needs to check her ID
Lifting line theory for wing-in-ground effect in proximity to a free surface August 29th, 2011
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