The Religious Wrong

I'm reading The Republican War on Science© by Chris Mooney.

It talks of the "cynical collusion of special business interests with the anti-intellectualism of the religious right."

"In the White House and the US Congress, research findings are reported in a politicized manner, spun or distorted to fit the speaker's agenda or, when they're too inconvenient, ignored entirely. Federal science agencies are increasingly staffed by political appointees who know industry lobbyists and evangelical activists far better then they know the science."

"This is not purely a Bush administration phenomenon, but it is largely a Republican phenomenon, born of a conservative dislike of environmental, health, and safety regulation, and of evolution and legalized abortion."

"[Ronald] Reagan fail[ed] to acknowledge and speak out about the AIDS epidemic until 1987, at least in part out of deference to religious conservatives in his administration ... who recoiled at the notion of educating children about safe sex and condoms."

More to come ...

By the way, saying that sex education and condoms cause people to have sex is like saying that seat belts cause car accidents.