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Entry: The Right's Science Problem Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_rights_science_problem#17182 Post contents: Russell Seitz is to be commended for this highly perceptive essay on the neoconservative aversion for science. I too have been noticing this phenomenon for decades but until recently ascribed it to the ideologically driven obscurantism that has been characteristic of the neocons' manipulation of reality sincethey've been in power. But there is probably far more than their alliance with the Zionist Fundies that is at stake here. The neocons mix their passion forpublic administration with another critical characteristic of mass democratic Progressivism, a form of radical environmentalism that is marked by a violent rejection of hereditarianism and a stress on human adaptability under the guidance of the democratic state. Although this interest may be different from why the Zionist Fundamentalists reject Darwinism, these concerns mesh perfectly in the short run. The neocons are killig two birds with one stone when they rail against evolutionary biology. The attack on the general theory of relativity is mere fluff, whipped up to protect us against "moral relativists," aka people who disagree with neocons. My book on the drifting conservative movement makes no secret about the abysmal stupidity of the types who take such nonsense as serious commentary (yes the pun is fully intended). Sent at: 2008 10 12