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The Republicans have become the pride and probably science against. They reached this conclusion because the science is inconclusive, but because they believe that as a matter of principle, that the scientific evidence is not evidence. The contempt with which the view is amazing, because one of the parties. (And his "litmus test, but probably reject science behind the test.) With the exception of Jon Huntsman, who polls as well as Darwin had initially Republicans, Republican presidential candidate was denied existence of climate change, denied that the cause was – and is reversible – for men, or apologized for once having a different opinion.

It has been much debate Herman Cain 9-9-9 plan, for example, was cleared by independent economists, conservative and progressive in the same way, but Cain still defends. It's the same world view that is convenient Cain, when asked about the wall street protests take, saying: "[has] to support this, but I think for" Without the facts, it is very important that you have fulfilled the conviction. "This type of waste stream, because the evidence guttural, and science in almost all respects the republican ideology. Why? Because, he says, even skeptics have not read his analysis – the right not only for their deeds but to his own mathematics.

It's a system ripe for exploitation, and the Conservatives are willing to do. Perhaps not surprising. After all, this type of behavior is always rewarded by the media. This was based on reason and science, the other on one of the two, is considered irrelevant. As Al Gore said in "An Inconvenient Truth", while less than 1 percent of scientific journals into question the reality of anthropogenic global warming, nearly half of all newspaper stories did. At a time when the media obsessed with balance, the facts are put aside in favor of dueling and false opinions equivalences.

It seems appropriate to remind candidates that these discussions have been solved for many decades, some for centuries and that 2011 is not 1611. Over the next few decades, science – and the respect for science – can be crucial to tackle our greatest global challenges, whether to reduce our carbon footprint to combat climate change, find new treatments and cures for diseases AIL us, or the development of innovations capable of lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. It's time to go back to the Enlightenment. We can not afford to make decisions about our economy and our future, without reason or solid evidence. We can not afford to ignore the power of science, or as necessary to solve problems.

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