Definitions
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- adjective Opposed to
science and scientific progress. - noun The abuse or rejection of traditional
science ;scholarship in which traditionalscience is abused or disregarded.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"antiscience", then RealClimate and Bad Astronomy and ClimateAudit and a host of other blogs are antiscience.
Watts Up With That? Willis Eschenbach 2010
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The last time it got close was about a century ago, when the Democrats went antiscience under the leadership of anti-evolution campaigner William Jennings Bryan.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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His writing has appeared in many fundamentalist and anti-science websites including The Good Steward.com, Evangelical Press, the Christian Examiner, The Home School Legal Defense Association, and antiscience evolution denier Answers in Genesis.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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His writing has appeared in many fundamentalist and anti-science websites including The Good Steward.com, Evangelical Press, the Christian Examiner, The Home School Legal Defense Association, and antiscience evolution denier Answers in Genesis.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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At ATI, Sturgis says that Chesser's antiscience propaganda efforts are largely bankrolled by fossil fuel interests.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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Similar to Eisenhower, who warned America of an emerging scientific-technological elite, Mao was concerned that scientists could take over as a "technical elite," so he demanded that ideology take precedence over science, effectively silencing scientists, not unlike several American antiscience conservative radio commentators today who complain of a "scientific dictatorship."
Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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Consider these examples from history, that are eerily echoed in today's antiscience politics:
Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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Today, America's highest profile antiscience elected leaders are calling climate change a hoax, harrassing and trying to intimidate scientists they disagree with, saying that creationism should be taught in science class, arguing that homosexuality is "personal enslavement" and that abstinence-only sex education works, opposing the arts, and passing resolutions that say that astrology controls the weather.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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Today's GOP antiscience fervor is somewhat new for America.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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At ATI, Sturgis says that Chesser's antiscience propaganda efforts are largely bankrolled by fossil fuel interests.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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