Why anti-science politics is bad for America

Lawrence Krauss talks about how science is being abused and misused in politics.... and why it is harmful to America's prosperity.

Credit:
"The Role of Science: How to Identify and Counter Misuse and Abuse of Science"
Aspen Ideas Festival 07
Jul. 03, 2007

The Aspen Institute
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/

The full video can be found here:
http://fora.tv/2007/07/03/Role_of_Science

Further reading:
Scientific Integrity of Washington: Politics trumps science? (PDF)
http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/scientifintegaps.pdf

Public Acceptance of Evolution
http://richarddawkins.net/article,706,Public-Acceptance-of-Evolution,Science-...

Lawrence Krauss: McCain Risks Becoming the Anti-Science Candidate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-m-krauss/mccain-risks-becoming-the_b_1...

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[Orin00r]

Religion isnt a part of human nature, its just supersticion , science and education will make it absolete.

I live in norway in scandinavia. And we have less than 10% of people that are religius.

And most of them are immigrants and have brought their religion with them. And their numbers are shrinking.

I do belive that this eventualy will happen all over the world, mabye not in my lifetime but eventualy, unless the Fundamentalist destroy the earth first

[m1ch1227]

..thiz guy for President!!

[TheSkeptic76]

Krauss is brilliant! Cleveland lost so much when we lost his presence!

[michiko38]

The same antiscience culture is taking hold in Canada. The government blocks researchers from speaking to the media about their findings, scientists being fired from environment Canada [they could lay off some bureaucrats instead], experts being terminated, an approach to criminal justice based on ideology rather than facts. Lack of objectivity equals fundamentalism equals erosions of rights and freedoms.

[5jerry1]

@redshogun

Politics "is" a topic, singular, despite the final "s." This video is titled correctly.

[WarmongerWW3]

@techn0teen I think it will happen because of cyclical economic collapse of capitalism and the failure of the World Bank and IMF. But extremist ideas (racism, religious persecution, etc.) always arise in this scenario of global economic collapse.

[Bodhidharma1986]

I trust science. I do. However, I do not think that technology will save the human race. There is more and more technology that is simply manufactured to steal our freedoms and personal autonomy. Biometric scanners, GPS, surveillance technology is all used by Elites to crush public opposition. Let's not forget TV, the biggest and most successful indoctrination and propaganda system in human history! If science concerned itself with truly human concerns, we'd be happier and healthier. We're not.

[techn0teen]

I agree with this video 100%, but I really want to move from America to Europe or Canada where I do not feel like I am being constantly attacked for refusing to have a religion. I am called a "bad American" by many of the right-wing Christian conservatives. Anyone think WWIII will be started by the tensions of Islam and Christianity?

[DrunkenPoetic]

God be all up in my pimp-game, disrespecting my mojo karma-explosion.

And that ain't good.

[dietsnapple89]

I hate anti science idiots, mostly Christians and Muslims. THey are scum, and should be exiled to an island where they can live with their crazy ideology.

[mmmmmarcus]

"Those who sacrifice liberty, for a little security, deserve neither" --Benjamin Franklin Whats the difference between Right-Wing, and Left-Wing?  ---One dry-fucks you in the ass, while the other uses lube and molests your children. Fucking hate the media, and federal government. Fucking traitors, 99.9 percent of american citizens are traitors!

[mmmmmarcus]

@redshogun, "anti-science politics is bad" is actually correct. you arent using grammar correctly. =) "are" would only be accurate if he had typed "All forms of politics are bad". Since "anti-science politics" is just one generalized topic, "are" has no place in the title. Nice try, though.