ScienceBlogs.com Leftwing Political Attack Sites

PZ is such a lying little creep. Check out this smear piece on Palin:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn....._mouth.php

Let them have their freedom of expression. may the stronger idea win!

The “about scienceblogs.com” page is good for a few laughs (emphasis mine):

We have selected our 60+ bloggers based on their originality, insight, talent, and dedication and how we think they would contribute to the discussion at ScienceBlogs. Our role, as we see it, is to create and continue to improve this forum for discussion, and to ensure that the rich dialogue that takes place at ScienceBlogs resonates outside the blogosphere.

Honestly, how does this PZ guy manage to have so much free time on his hands that he can write lefty propaganda about Sarah Palin? I barely have enough time to visit UD.

I do not disagree that scienceblogs have become very political recently and yes, they all tend to be liberal points of view.

The scienceblogs frequently discuss politics and religion because political pressure is being used to push non-scientific ideas into the classroom at the insistence of politicians and people of faith. Our natural world is not something that is controlled by legislatures, i.e., “I vote against gravity”. Just look at the statements made about the hurricanes that hit New Orleans. In 2005 when Katrina hit New Orleans, some said that this was God’s response to the moral depravity of New Orleans. Equally wrong were recent statements by Michael Moore that stated that Hurricane Gustav’s influence on the Rupublican National Convention and the lack of rain in Denver for the final night of the Democratic Convention is proof that God is a Democrat. This justs shows how inappropriate it is to invoke religion in discussing the natural world. The weather is driven by the interaction of air masses with the ocean and land masses as guided by the rotation of the planet. Invoking a deity when it suits one’s purpose is really silly and it insults both sides intelligence.

Why are there no conservative scienceblogs? In general, most scientists that I know view the natural world in shades of gray rather than black and white.

The arguments between Democrats and Republicans are really a microcosm for the ID / evolution debate. I would bet that the majority of IDists vote Republican and the majority of evolutionist vote Democratic.

I think Michael Moore was being ironic - some republican supporters had asked for prayers for a storm to disrupt the democrats convention.

I agree with DobyGS though, almost all of the scientists I know have generally liberal leanings.

I challenge you to show me a single scienceblog.com website that supports anything on the conservative side of the political spectrum.

That would have to be Ed Brayton’s “Dispatches from the Culture War”. Ed is vocally libertarian. And while he doesn’t think much of ID, he does take a very conservative approach to taxes and the role of government.

Hey, you said “anything” not “everything”.

terry -

Honestly I’ve found that while libertarians might be close to conservatives on specific issues, the way in which they approach government as a whole is closer to liberal than conservative.

Libertarians and Liberals both tend to believe that values arise from the bottom up, and the difference between them is what the “bottom” looks like. Conservatives tend to view values and freedom as coming from God, and therefore the impetus to govern according to those things comes from the top down.

Scientistics often mistake scientism for Science. So first-come-first-served they bought the domain “science blogs”.

I suggest two courses, we heretofore mangle the domain science[sic]blogs.com and somebody should also buy scientismblogs.org and direct it to scienceblogs.

There is not a single conservative scienceblogger. Orac occasionally claims to be conservative, but it sure gets past me.

If y’all have a strong stomach, check out PZ Myers’ ‘Palin open thread’, where our liberal intellectuals post, inter alia, rape fantasies about Sarah Palin, while they continue to disperse the absurd theory she is not the mother of her son Trig.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn.....thread.php

And it may not have passed notice I’m a true blue evolutionist, and no particular friend to Uncommon Descent. But this stuff just disgusts me.

By the way, Ed Brayton’s blogging is bankrolled by George Soros. Just so you know.

gerardharbison

True, some of them are very puerile but just to defend Myers for a moment he did post this in response to some of the comments:

“People, the misogyny and inappropriate sexual fantasies are pissing me off, and are telling me that maybe I should just close this thread. Talk about her lies. Talk about her incompetence. But her appearance and her gender should be off limits.”

PZ needs to drive the hatred of that troop in the approved direction - towards people of faith and ID proponents. But as they stomp around angrily - showing their teeth like apes - some of them appear to be getting out of line.
A crack of the PZ’s whip and they’re fawning like hounds around him.