the Stupidest Anti-Science Bullshit of 2014

[dixiegrrrrl]

2014 had its fair share of landmark scientific accomplishments: dramatic cuts to the cost of sequencing a genome; sweeping investigations of climate change impacts in the US; advances in private-sector space travel, and plenty more. But there was also no shortage of high-profile figures eager to publicly and shamelessly denounce well-established science—sometimes with serious consequences for public policy. So without further ado, the most egregious science denial of 2014:


Basically everything said by Donald Trump:

and

Senate overrun by climate deniers:

and much more, details, here:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/worst-science-denial-2014

[lame54]

1. #1 - Jim Inhofe head of Senate Environment Committee

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Fortunately I got a a huge chest of pills for Christmas

Cause it's gonna take a lot to get thru this next Congress.

[zappaman]

3. Anti vaxxers.

Anti-vaxxers are still a thing

The first five months of 2014 saw the more measles cases than comparable time periods in any year since 1994; the CDC reported that 90 percent of those cases were among people who hadn't been vaccinated. In May, a Tennessee hospital reported a disturbing spike in cases of infants with a rare bleeding condition that could have been prevented with a routine vitamin injection; doctors there blamed anti-vaccination fears for parents avoiding the injection. Yes, it's not just Jenny McCarthy—a surprising number of people across the country continue to be preoccupied with the totally debunked fear that vaccines will lead to autism or other maladies.

[RobertEarl]

4. Nukes are safe crowd

Damn idiots that want more nukes built when they don't have a friggin clue about what to do with the waste we already have spilled out upon the face of the Earth.

Oh they built a waste plant... called the WIPP- Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, in New Mexico. But this year it caught on fire and blew plutonium into the air. The place was supposed to be safe for a thousand years and it already failed.

And let's not forget about Fukushima. There is no vaccine for what Fukushima has spewed, and never will be. It now is polluting not only the global air, but is in the North Pacific ocean.

The science says nuke radiation kills but we have so many damned idiots who deny that science, they really are pathetic.

[mythology]

5. They may be underestimating the anti-science bent in the U.S.

There is still more than a week before the end of the year. Some of them will take this list as a challenge.