Showing papers on "Antiscience published in 2016"
TL;DR: The authors investigates the claim that the Harper Conservatives were anti-science and asks whether this label is an adequate appraisal of the Canadian Right's disposition toward science, or is beneficial to discussions on science and the public interest.
Abstract: Critics paid considerable attention to the Harper Conservative government’s record on science and technology. Cuts to funding and resources in these sectors, numerous environmentally-questionable policies, and charges of information control over Canada’s scientific community served as evidence for many that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government and its supporters held an “anti-science” ideology and were engaged in a “war on science.” However, the government continued to make financial and rhetorical investments into science and technology to promote economic prosperity and boost Canadian national identity based on “innovation.” This article investigates the claim that the Harper Conservatives were “anti-science,” and asks whether this label is an adequate appraisal of the Canadian Right’s disposition toward science, or is beneficial to discussions on science and the public interest. Les critiques ont porte une attention speciale de l’ancien gouvernement conservateur sur la science et la technologie. Les compressions budgetaire dans l’allocation des ressources dans ces secteurs, les nombreuses politiques douteuse portant sur l’environnement, et les plaintes de controle de l'information sur la communaute scientifique canadienne ont servi comme preuve pour plusieurs que le gouvernement de l’ex premier ministre Stephen Harper et ses partisans ont mobilise une ideologie «antiscience» et etaient engages dans une guerre contre la science. Cependant, le gouvernement a continue de faire des investissements financiers et rhetoriques dans la science et la technologie afin de promouvoir la prosperite economique et de renforcer l'identite nationale canadienne fondee sur «l'innovation». Cet article examine l’allegation que les conservateurs canadiens sont «antiscience» et se demande si celle-ci est une evaluation adequate de la disposition du droit du Canada envers la science, ou est benefique pour les discussions sur la science et l'interet public.
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TL;DR: The War on Science as mentioned in this paper describes the emergence of an antiscience movement whose focus is to disrupt the creation of evidence-based policy for the sake of preserving profitable business models or entrenched religious dogma.
Abstract: In his new book, The War on Science, Shawn Otto documents the modern clash between what he calls the "authoritarians" (governments, large corporations, and religious groups) and the "antiauthoritarians" (scientists and other liberal thinkers). Drawing on recent examples ranging from the evolution debate to vaccine skepticism, Otto describes the emergence of an antiscience movement whose focus is to disrupt the creation of evidence-based policy for the sake of preserving profitable business models or entrenched religious dogma.
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