https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/12/evolution-and-politics-in-flor/ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:16:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/12/evolution-and-politics-in-flor/#comment-2798 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:16:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/12/evolution-and-politics-in-flor/#comment-2798 Actually seems that Mr. Foster just finished reading Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism,” and no, you don’t want to even read the book jacket. This is the same community where 4 of the school board members think that evolution is only a theory. . . the stupid, it burns. Gaia help me, I live here.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/12/evolution-and-politics-in-flor/#comment-2797 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:21:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/12/evolution-and-politics-in-flor/#comment-2797 Politicians are mainly lawyers and thus “truth” for them is how you spin the words. They are trying to appeal to voters; so they weave a story misusing cause and effect, but it sounds good.(to a certain group of voters) In a large part it is also their (and their constituents) ignorance of science.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/12/evolution-and-politics-in-flor/#comment-2796 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:06:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/12/evolution-and-politics-in-flor/#comment-2796 Greg,After spending two years in Tampa and three in Tallahassee, I can’t come up with anyone who contradicts your observation off the top of my head.I can’t say why the elected officials, and by extension so many voters, there appear to have something wrong with them. I do have a hypothesis as to why they are the way they are, though. I think it’s a combination of high levels of mercury in the drinking water and chronic blood loss caused by mosquito bites over the course of a lifetime.

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