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Charlie Pierce:
There are some decent liberals who wonder why some of their fellows jump
all over every case, no matter how small, when some school board
attempts of bootleg creationism -- or Intelligent Design -- are put into
the science classes in some very small town. It's because creationism
is the index patient for the triumph of the irrational over reason. If,
in the face of all scientific evidence, we must Teach The Controversy in
high school biology classes, why, in the face of all the available
evidence, should we not Teach The Controversy about climate change, or
about Liberal Fascism, or about vaccinations, or about Confederate nostalgia,
a self-regulating oil industry, or about supply-side economics, for all
that. There is a concerted effort to make room for ignorance in our
most serious public debates concerning our most pressing public policy
problems. That effort is being made, consciously or otherwise, on behalf
of a class of modern plutocrats whose profits depend on muddying the
issues, and on injecting irrationality as a paralytic agent in our
politics. And, believe me, there's a lot more of this to come.
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