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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

When All Else Fails, Call Us Crazy

This one is really laughable, and he IS giving science a bad name. From CNS News
By Penny Starr
Proponents of human-caused global warming claim that "cognitive" brain function prevents conservatives from accepting the science that says "climate change" is an imminent threat to planet Earth and its inhabitants.
George Lakoff, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley and author of the book "The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics," says his scientific research shows that how one perceives the world depends on one’s bodily experience and how one functions in the everyday world. Reason is shaped by the body, he says.
Here is where I usually say read it all.  Now I just say read it if you have some extra time.

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