Unscientific methods.Asked why he wrote only about the Republican war on science, Chris Mooney
Christopher Cole Mooney (b. September 20 1977), better known as Chris Mooney is a U.S. journalist who focuses on science in politics. He is the Washington D.C. replied, "Democrats have no constituency that compels them to deny something as fundamental as evolution" ("Unscientific unscientific Unproven, see there Methods," January). The evidence contradicts Mooney's claim. Democratic ranks, like GOP ranks, bulge with people proclaiming that legislated minimum wages benefit low-wage workers and that goods in short supply are made more affordable by price caps. These people, in short, deny something as fundamental as supply and demand. More generally, the faithful of all political creeds imagine that the lives of 300 million diverse individuals can be successfully run by a handful of strangers who pose and pontificate beneath soaring marble domes. These are egregious e·gre·gious adj. Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant. [From Latin superstitions, immune to evidence and reason. Donald F. Boudreaux Chairman, Department of Economics George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. Fairfax, VA |
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