Why the left is losing the political battle!!!

[skookerasbil]

Simple........they struggle with understanding human behavior. Been saying this for 20 years.....the AGW community needs a Plan B and this guy nails it.......article entitled "The Real War on Science". Fascinating..........the author speaks to the left having, unintentionally, destroyed the reputations of many scientists...........being eroded by the green politicking. It all makes a lot of sense.........if you understand human behavior ( my life's work btw ).

Article is a long, long read, but exceedingly comprehensive!!!! And brilliant.


"Leftists have much more confidence in experts and the state. Engels argued for “scientific socialism,” a redesign of society supposedly based on the scientific method. Communist intellectuals planned to mold the New Soviet Man. Progressives yearned for a society guided by impartial agencies unconstrained by old-fashioned politics and religion."


"These same sneer-and-smear techniques predominate in the debate over climate change. President Obama promotes his green agenda by announcing that “the debate is settled,” and he denounces “climate deniers” by claiming that 97 percent of scientists believe that global warming is dangerous. His statements are false. While the greenhouse effect is undeniably real, and while most scientists agree that there has been a rise in global temperatures caused in some part by human emissions of carbon dioxide, no one knows how much more warming will occur this century or whether it will be dangerous."

The Real War on Science







Bottom line? Until the left gets a better understanding of human behavior and the social sciences.......that they believe they have mastered........the science will continue to have little impact in the real world!

 

[SeaGal]

Lot's of stuff there.

In reading, parts of two older publications came to mind.

One, from Eisenhower's farewell speech oft quoted for warnings of the dangers of the 'military industrial complex'. Less oft quoted is his warning about the dangers of a 'scientific-technological elite'.

'Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.'

Two, from Huxley's Brave New World - in which science becomes 'a juggernaut and more dogmatic than any religion could hope to be, crushing everything human from humanity'...and 'the priests of scientism were not merely robed clerics performing rituals; they were gods with the power of gods.

Re: Silent Spring - the deadliest little book in history...costing the lives of millions of women and children in Africa...A True Feel-Good Crime Against Humanity.