I know that. Objecting to the ACA is different than not wanting people to have health care. But for the sake of humor I used the same level of truthiness that all politicians seem to use. That is, true in only a tangential way to get the point across but willing to backtrack when called out on it.

And the Nazis burned books to reshape the truth. I see no difference in muzzling scientists.

The fact that they don’t always agree with one another is part of what makes the enterprise so great. It’s free of groupthink, and when consensus does happen, one can examine the methodology and research with transparency to see why an idea takes hold the way it does.

That’s plausible, except I doubt those politicians excel in long term planning.

No, but having the government censor them is definitely not the answer to anything.

In general they are but Harper is a special brand of Conservative. He’s essentially a Republican that snuck into Canadian politics.

I always thought of Canadian, British and Australian conservatives as a nicer version of American conservatives but based on recent events/trends that seem to muzzle, ignore and refute scientific fact with religion makes me wonder what happened to moderation and compromise? We are in a high tech age but yet we seem to…