Science Forums 2

[HydrogenBond]

One thing evolution, AIDS and global warming have in common is they are a blend of science and politics. Most people trust science, because it leads to so many useful things. But many are on the fence when science combines with politics. If you look at the political process, it often involves promises one is not required to keep. It involves rhetoric that appeals to the feelings which can be fear, scandal or warm and fuzzy. The rational person questions whether they just manipulating me to get my vote. Science is not consensus, since the data should stand for itself. Consensus is happens in politics at its best.

If you look at these three issues, in terms of politics, they are much closer to atheism and the democratic party. It was already pointed out the republican party and people with a more religious bent, are in a state of denial relative to that political platform. I am more in the middle. I try to filter out the politics, that is divided down party lines, which is heavy in political doom and gloom. This future prediction is where science becomes more like science fiction, since all assumed future data, is not hard data, like the past data of the real science. That is why politics is needed. If you look at Al Gore, he combines the real data with an infomercial to make it political. The informercial is where science breaks down causing the split at party lines.