Only In It For The Gold: Neither Optimist nor Pessimist, Just Activist.
"We must stop treating the natural world as something to exploit, and start realizing that it is our home. If we do that, we can thrive."
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The other day, I quibbled with John Derbyshire's contention that liberals are optimists and with Joel Mathis's objection that his liberalism is pessimistic.
If you look at the bar chart below you will see that this year's bird flu season is shaping up to look pretty much like last year. In the first two months of the year there are a few more cases but essentially the picture looks much the same.
John Derbyshire thinks there's a tension between liberalism and science:
Science: The #1 tool for activists. Yeah.
Not sure I get your point, Erayor...? (Assuming this is dry sarcasm)
Do you prefer activists to use ideology as their primary tool? Any activism should be motivated by reality and science is the best tool for understanding reality.
Besides, the post does not make any comment on the relationship of science to activism.