{"id":1423,"date":"2011-09-25T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2011-09-25T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T16:52:39","slug":"political-war-on-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Political war on science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Grimm from the Miami Herald has a good article about the very real and very scary Republican political war on science that’s worth a read. For Republican candidates, politics trump science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer] Carroll, in her fire-and-brimstone speech on Thursday, spoke disparagingly of how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153some of our political leaders bow down to scientists and let them have the stage to push their evolution.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She made it plenty clear that the coming Republican revolution would no longer allow \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the minority to poison the minds of the majority.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fred Grimm from the Miami Herald has a good article about the very real and very scary Republican political war on science that’s worth a read. For Republican candidates, politics trump science. [Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer] Carroll, in her fire-and-brimstone … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-mX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1716,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1716","url_meta":{"origin":1423,"position":0},"title":"Darwin a write-in candidate in GA","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"ATLANTA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Having denounced evolution as a lie \"straight from the pit of hell,\" Republican Rep. 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