During the darkest days of the Bush era, science writer Chris Mooney made a big splash in the publishing world with his first book detailing the Republican war on science. This month his newest effort, what could be nicknamed the Republican brain on science, hit the shelves. In it you will find Mooney is a stickler for detail, always important in any book on science, especially one with a bold title. But this is no clinical read, the book is a blast right off the bat, framing the main subject marvelously in the juiciest claims and tastier bits of conservative pseudoscientific lore readers here have come to lovingly know and ridicule. The book also introduced something new, at least for me, called the smart idiot effect: the more educated conservatives are, the more sure they are about their false beliefs. How is that possible? http://freethoughtblogs.com/zingularity/2012/04/15/the-republican-brain-on-science/
Good find, FT. An easily understandable and accurate premise supported by the facts. And even by definition, conservative minds don't want change. Progress is about moving forward, which implies change. Conservatives have historically been the ones to slap down innovation and social progress as a matter of course. How conservatives managed to even find their way to the 11th century remains a mystery.
FT is more intelligent than you are and smarter than you will ever be. Why don't you weigh in on this discussion: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=240890&perpage=6&pagenumber=1 I suggest you read all of the posts before participating.