A Confederacy Of (Those Who Want You To Be) Dunces

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Shot In The Dark:

 

Mitch Berg

4/12/13

 

One of the worst aspects of our current hyper-polarized political climate is that many institutions that the American people used to rely upon for something close to objectivity and reliable, politically-untinted information have turned into partisan propaganda.

 

Journalism is long gone, of course; the notion of the “objective” media died among anyone who pays attention nearly four decades ago. The civil service bureaucracy is largely beholden to the big government unions. Clergy at all too many mainline Protestant and Catholic churches are air-headed liberal chanting-point-bots.

 

And now, the left is trying to co-opt science – or at least how the public perceives science.

 

One of the cultural left’s favorite conceits is to try to wrap itself in the trappings of “science” – or, like the Wizard of Oz, at least enough trappings to keep the ignorant in line.

 

And I’ve seen few more brazen examples of this than Susan Perry’s interview in the MinnPost last Tuesday with Dr. Steven Miles, who Perry credits as “a professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota”.

 

The list of titles lends credibility to Dr. Miles’ responses. And apparently Ms. Perry thinks that’s enough.

 

As we’ll see, it’s not.

 

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