{"id":139165,"date":"2013-05-03T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=139165"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:28:48","slug":"science-free-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/05\/03\/science-free-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Believe In Science When You Can Believe In The Free Market Gods?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Milton<\/p>\n

The Article:<\/strong> Study: Belief in Free-Market Economics Linked to Distrust of Science<\/a> by Steven Hsieh in AlterNet.<\/p>\n

The Text:<\/strong> People who support free-market economics are more likely to reject proven science, according to a study published in Psychological Science last month.<\/p>\n

Examining 1,377 visitors to climate change denial blogs, researchers found that belief in a hands-off approach to economics predicted denial that human activity causes climate change, a fact accepted by 97 percent of scientists. The study\u2019s authors\u2014which include Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and Klaus Oberauer of the University of Zurich\u2014noted that the anti-science movement is especially prevalent in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conspiracist ideation that all of the world\u2019s scientific academies have conspired together to create a hoax known as global warming has found traction in American mainstream politics,\u201d the study reads.<\/p>\n

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Many have reported on climate skepticism\u2019s connection to big industry and the American right. Bolstered by prominent conservative think tanks, the climate change denying faction reaches high-ranking lawmakers who support deregulation and block movement toward a sustainable future. Perhaps most notorious is Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who penned a book calling climate change science The Greatest Hoax. But Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Environment Committee, represents just the most extreme in a legislative body that doesn\u2019t acknowledge the urgency of our warming planet. According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, the 112 th Congress introduced more than 100 bills related to climate change, but only passed two. <\/p>\n

Lewandowsky and his colleagues\u2019 research also found supporters of right-wing economics tend to reject \u201cother established scientific findings, such as the fact that HIV causes AIDs and that smoking causes lung cancer.\u201d Additionally, researchers found a strong link between climate change deniers and conspiracists in general, such as the 9\/11 \u201ctruthers\u201d movement and those who believe NASA staged the Apollo 11 moon landing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis finding suggests that a general propensity to endorse any of a number of conspiracy theories predisposes people to reject entirely unrelated scientific facts,\u201d said the studies\u2019 authors.<\/p>\n

This apparent disregard for science manifests in the American right\u2019s constant derision of the entire field, from biology to medicine, to advance political agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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