Ideologues find scientists to twist truth

[True_Blue]

BOSTON – The medical examiners delivered their autopsy report in the most matter-of-fact tone. Terri Schiavo’s brain had atrophied to half the normal size for a woman her age. Her eyes, the focus of that famous videotape, saw nothing. She was blind.

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This case was never solely about medicine. But the question on the TV screen illustrated the times we live in – times when facts can exist in a separate universe from opinions. And a country in which science is not seen as a matter of black and white but increasingly a matter of red and blue.

The Schiavo case is not the only example. The climate is equally apparent in the struggle over what the Bush administration calls “climate change” – and everyone else calls global warming. The only way to justify doing nothing about global warming now is to deliberately muddle the science. It’s not an accident that Philip Cooney, the White House official caught editing reports of greenhouse gases, left for Exxon, which has indeed funded doubts.

So, too, the struggle over evolution is no longer overtly between scientists and religious fundamentalists. It’s between the science establishment and the handful of frontmen with Ph.D.s who support “intelligent design.” Their credentials make it seem as if evolution was also a matter of genuine scientific debate.

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[alarimer]

1. When people have made up their minds

facts make no difference to them. Their minds are closed. Unless the autopsy report had confirmed their pet notions, they woud have dismissed it no matter what. Creationists are the same way. They "fix" the evidence to fit their preconceived notions of life on Earth. In fact I believe there is a Creation Institute designed to perpetuate this scientific fraud. And that is what "creation science" is- even ID- scientific fraud.