The Wingers never make an attack that's half-assed. The assault on "Climategate" has turned into a full-fledged indictment of science itself in the British press, and the Wingers are in full outrage mode, demanding that basically all the climate change science done over the last generation be redone because it's now 100% suspect, the world is fine, and we're free to really pollute as much as we can.
God'll fix it. Let's all drive Hummers.
What all this really goes into is the Winger tenet that science is bad. Scientists are all "elitist atheist liberals" who are all trying to scam the good "everyday" people with their climate change and evolution and their human trials crap, and all science really does is promote thought, which the Wingers abhor. You're not supposed to think critically, you're supposed to do what the Wingers tell you to do, treat it as the truth, and never question it. 2+2=4 is a scam, they tell you. You should consider alternatives, because science itself is suspect, unlike religion and groupthink. Scientists are outside this, so they are suspect too. You see, if 99 scientists and 1 Winger come to the same conclusions about the way the world works, the Winger is the "free thinker" because he's wrong.
It's suspect because they can't control it. It's been going on since the days of Galileo and well before that.
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