Political Effectiveness: Creationism & Global Warming Denial


	Political Effectiveness: Creationism & Global Warming Denial

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3-9-2007 12:29 PM

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creationism, id, intelilgent design, global warming, climate change, denial, exxon, science, ideology, politics, conservative, think tanks, research, debate, money, krugman, nyt, opinion

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4b8d473e-c882-46f1-a392-857af38901ac/0BD63AC0-DDBB-43AC-99AE-6912BE3948E9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geocities.com/hawcc/Creationism-NYT.txt" href="http://www.geocities.com/hawcc/Creationism-NYT.txt" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geocities.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geocities.com/hawcc/Creationism-NYT.txt">Design for Confusion
By PAUL KRUGMAN</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geocities.com/hawcc/Creationism-NYT.txt">"Political effectiveness was the priority," he wrote in 1995, "not the
accounting deficiencies of government."
Corporations followed his lead, pouring a steady stream of money into
think tanks that created a sort of parallel intellectual universe, a
world of "scholars" whose careers are based on toeing an ideological line,
rather than on doing research that stands up to scrutiny by their peers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geocities.com/hawcc/Creationism-NYT.txt">There are several reasons why fake research is so effective. One is that
nonscientists sometimes find it hard to tell the difference between research
and advocacy - if it's got numbers and charts in it, doesn't that make it science? </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geocities.com/hawcc/Creationism-NYT.txt">the conventions of he-said-she-said
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