{"id":3510,"date":"2013-07-23T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/science-and-democracy\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:26:17","slug":"science-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/science-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"science and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Plains advertised a webcast about fracking from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/center-for-science-and-democracy\/\">Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a>.\u00a0 See below.<\/p>\n<p><em>Science<\/em>.\u00a0 Scientific method.\u00a0 Hypothesis, experiment, evidence, contingent proof, repeatability.<\/p>\n<p><em>Democracy<\/em>.\u00a0 Majority rule, the common good, enforced equality, regulatory bureaucratic control.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing scientific about democracy.\u00a0 Democracy is about controlling people.\u00a0 Science is about understanding nature.\u00a0 Why link the two?<\/p>\n<p>Because you want to enforce specific outcomes under the pretense of scientific authority. \u00a0 And what outcomes do the Union of Concerned Scientists want to enforce?\u00a0 Look at their web site . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Global Warming<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/global_warming\/\">The Earth is warming and\u00a0human activity is\u00a0the primary cause.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Clean vehicles <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/clean_vehicles\/\">We must act now. Our cars and trucks consume more oil  than all other sources combined. America&#8217;s reliance on oil threatens our  health, economy, and environment\u2014and the costs and risks will only  intensify as oil becomes more difficult and expensive to acquire.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Clean energy <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/clean_energy\/\">Renewable energy resources like wind and solar power generate  electricity with little or no pollution and global warming emissions\u2014and  could reliably provide up to 40 percent of U.S. electricity needs  within the next 20 years.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on.\u00a0 No nukes, sustainable this and that, one Pollyanna &#8220;solution&#8221; after another.\u00a0 I respect that we all have free speech and we can say whatever we want in America, for the most part.\u00a0 But the left is just so fundamentally unserious on so many of these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what problems could be solved in the world if the half of humanity with their heads up their democratic collectives were actually engaged in real solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what politically correct effluvia they&#8217;ll issue about fracking on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest part about being a conservative is the constant challenge of countering seductive fantasies with the &#8220;opportunity cost&#8221; of real accomplishments that could have been made, had they not been crowded out by bovine scatology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new-plains-science-and-democracy.jpg\" title=\"Science and Democracy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new-plains-science-and-democracy.jpg\" alt=\"Science and Democracy\" height=\"636\" width=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Plains advertised a webcast about fracking from the Union of Concerned Scientists.\u00a0 See below. Science.\u00a0 Scientific method.\u00a0 Hypothesis, experiment, evidence, contingent proof, repeatability. Democracy.\u00a0 Majority rule, the common good, enforced equality, regulatory bureaucratic control. There&#8217;s nothing scientific about democracy.\u00a0 Democracy is about controlling people.\u00a0 Science is about understanding nature.\u00a0 Why link the two? Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,60,65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fantasy","7":"category-myths","8":"category-progressivism","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}