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Santorum: “Liberals Are the Anti-Science Ones”
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Chutzpah alert: GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum accused liberals of being the true enemies of science:
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum charged on Monday that President Barack Obama and Democrats were “anti-science” because they refused to exploit the Earth’s natural resources to the limits of technology.
Over the weekend the candidate had been criticized for saying that President Barack Obama followed a theology that was not “based on the Bible.” He later insisted that he was talking about the president siding with “radical environmentalists.” [Raw Story]
As a U.S. senator, Santorum sponsored an amendment that would have forced schools to teach the pseudoscience of intelligent design at the expense of evolution. Yet Satorum's suspicion of fossils does not extend to fossil fuels. In private life, he became a well-compensated advocate of fracking in Pennsylvania.
During the GOP primary, Santorum came out against insurance coverage for all pre-natal testing, because prenatal testing might lead to abortions. In other words he wants to force people who can't afford expensive prenatal tests to give birth to children with catastrophic disabilities. What a wise and compassionate leader.
If Santorum brushed up on his sciene, he'd know that some prenatal testing saves pregnancies. In a powerful diary at Open Salon, Sarah Fister Gale describes how prenatal testing saved her daughter's life. If her baby's Rh negative disease hadn't been diagnosed in utero, the little girl probably would have died at birth.
This story hit home for me because my mother has an atypical Rh condition. Without prenatal testing, my brother wouldn't have made it, either. Luckily he was born in Canada under socialized medicine where coverage is based on science, not on the prejudices of ignorant busybodies like Rick Santorum.
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Canada does not have socialized medicine. Socialized medicine refers to a healthcare system in which the government owns and operates both the financing of health care and its delivery. Canada has a single-payer system, publicly funded, privately delivered based on the patients’ needs as determined by their doctor, not by private insurance insurance companies or fanatics like Santorum.
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There’s an argument to be made that those in the mainstream, liberal left who seem so eager to claim ownership of rationality and science are perhaps guilty of a little self-delusion in that regard. Certainly one can point to any number of “liberal” policies (particularly in the realm of economics) that I’d argue don’t qualify as being especially rational or scientific.
That said, it’s absolutely bizarre that a fruit-loop like Santorum is accusing others of irrationality or an anti-science stance. Talk about “projection”! Sadly, modern politics in general is desperately short on sanity. But I’m really not sure religious radicals like Santorum are qualified to make that critique.