Showing posts with label moderates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moderates. Show all posts

Saturday, April 13, 2019

Notes: Extremism And the Left


Quillette Is doing well this week! Here's another article I found compelling and interesting. The first point of the article makes it I found most in need of sharing Is that the extreme left is growing and, unless it is reigned in, will become as extreme and anti-intellectual as the extreme right.

>Those on the right once were the main enemies of evolutionary theory, but today, as Colin Wright argues, those on the extreme left are the “new evolution deniers.”<

And in answer to all those extremist you choose to throw science into the garbage can:

 > But science should be in the business of advancing knowledge of the world and its inhabitants rather than advancing certain groups or sides over others. Like any discipline of science, evolutionary psychology has not been untouched by prejudice and ridiculous theories. But most of them were either unfalsifiable and thus unscientific or were falsifiable and subsequently refuted by experimental tests. <

Monday, April 2, 2012

The US Senate

A joint study of CBS news and the National Journal reports that, based upon congressional voting records, the US Senate elected in 1982 had 60 -- that's 60 -- moderates whose voting records could not be predicted by simple party affiliation. By 1994, there were only 36 moderates in the Senate. After the 2002 elections, there were only nine moderates in the Senate. And finally, in 2010, there were no moderates in the US Senate. Say, you know, I wonder if that might have something to do with the problems this country is facing in getting the government to govern ?