Conservatives Hate Science

You mean I'm not God?

So I read with much interest a recent article in EurekaAlert!, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Entitled “Conservative Americans consistently distrust science,” the piece noted that recent surveys indicated that American conservatives distrust and dislike science – and not just science that contradicts their beliefs (i.e., evolution and climate change) but science in general. They just don’t like it. Period.

In particular, they don’t like science because it says everything can and should be questioned. Nothing is immune to examination. Which is another way of saying that their own beliefs could be disproven.

And, in their vast narcissism, that is unthinkable. Conservatives of the MAGA variety must be utterly correct. They are infallible. When they speak it is ex cathedra.

And so science, for them, is blasphemy. It interferes, you see, with the everlasting worship…

Of themselves.