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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Popular Science' cuts off comments on their site, because of GOPNRAteabaggers.
Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments
If you carry out those results to their logical endcommenters shape public opinion; public opinion shapes public policy; public policy shapes how and whether and what research gets fundedyou start to see why we feel compelled to hit the off switch.
A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to debate on television. And because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories, within a website devoted to championing science.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments
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(51,122 posts)Rah Rah NRA.
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(13,869 posts)http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/12/gun_violence_research_nra_and_congress_blocked_gun_control_studies_at_cdc.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/22/1173117/-The-NRA-s-antiscience-campain
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/08/08/nra-pulled-its-science-denying-website-that-cla/195299
etc.
Next you'll try pretending that they don't astroturf, too