{"id":8176,"date":"2011-03-17T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2011-03-17T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T08:00:40","slug":"the-other-foot-is-waiting-for-a-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8176","title":{"rendered":"Is the Shoe on the Other Foot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/are-liberals-science-deniers-now\u2019s-good-time-find-out\">Desmogblog:  Are Liberals Science Deniers? Now\u2019s A Good Time to Find Out<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A centerpoint of this \u201cnuclear counterargument\u201d was that the left used fears of reactor meltdowns and the escape of radiation to unjustifiably scare the public. And if that\u2019s true, then this is certainly the ideal moment for such misuse of science to occur again. So the question is, will it?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost like a natural experiment in the politicization of science.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;re never going to eliminate denialism from either side of the political spectrum, but unlike global warming (the GOP members of the Energy and Commerce Committee just <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/149585-house-gop-rejects-amendment-that-says-climate-change-is-occurring\">unanimously rejected<\/a> an amendment acknowledging global warming is even occurring), we have the president already backing nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>As for the citizenry, I think it will break down the same way \u2014 some will throw whatever argument they can find into the breach, because they&#8217;ve already made up their minds and facts don&#8217;t matter, but most of the others will assess the situation rationally.  I agree with Chris here \u2014\u00a0I think there will be measurably less denialism on the left.  In case you couldn&#8217;t tell already, I&#8217;m not squeamish about nuclear power (up to the point where some tea-partier decides that it should not be regulated by the government because regulation is bad.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desmogblog: Are Liberals Science Deniers? Now\u2019s A Good Time to Find Out A centerpoint of this \u201cnuclear counterargument\u201d was that the left used fears of reactor meltdowns and the escape of radiation to unjustifiably scare the public. And if that\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}