The Republican War on Science is not a war on science, after
all. It is
href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091907R.shtml">a war
on reality itself.
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This sort of thing is only important to people who are part of the reality-based community.
If they are at war with reality, then that's part of reality, hence they are at war with themselves. Being at war with themselves is also part of reality, so they are at war with their own war. (Wars, actually.) Continue ad infinitum...
Turtles all the way down?
The real war on reality waged by the Republicans is powered by the notion that objective science is a myth: All science is ideological. I guess they picked that up from the Soviets.
There is, I suppose, some legitimacy to what this guy is saying even though it isn't especially novel. He does have a way of obfuscating what he is trying to say with unnecessarily multisyllabic words.