{"id":1887,"date":"2006-06-13T19:09:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T01:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bushs-mistreatment-of-science\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:10:44","slug":"bushs-mistreatment-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bushs-mistreatment-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s mistreatment of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2006\/06\/as_science_goes_so_goes_the_na.php?utm_source=SB-rightcol&#038;utm_medium=linklist&#038;utm_campaign=internal%2Blinkshare\">Seed: As Science Goes, so Goes the Nation<\/a> by Chris Mooney, From the JUNE\/JULY issue of Seed <\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s mistreatment of science has expanded into a story that resonates deeply within his own country, and widely throughout the world, because it&#8217;s similar to the greater political narratives already being played out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; a similar pattern\u2014ignore experts, favor ideologues\u2014has been followed by the administration on any number of other science issues, ranging from global warming to the morning after pill. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">The president, for whatever reason, hasn&#8217;t shown that he respects what&#8217;s going on in what one of his aides so hilariously described as the &#8220;reality-based community.&#8221; The &#8220;Bush is anti science&#8221; meme carries political weight because it underscores why so many Americans (including previous supporters) are becoming increasingly disenchanted with Bush: They don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s fit to lead, and they don&#8217;t believe many of his appointees are competent administrators of various branches of the government, virtually all of which require some form of scientific or other expertise.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seed: As Science Goes, so Goes the Nation by Chris Mooney, From the JUNE\/JULY issue of Seed Bush&#8217;s mistreatment of science has expanded into a story that resonates deeply within his own country, and widely throughout the world, because it&#8217;s similar to the greater political narratives already being played out. &#8230; a similar pattern\u2014ignore experts, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bushs-mistreatment-of-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush&#8217;s mistreatment of science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}