Anti-Science

“Compared to the year-to-date average over the previous decade, funding for math, physics, and chemistry was down 67%; 52% for biology; and 57% for engineering. The crisis at the NSF isn’t accidental. It reflects the Trump administration’s hostility toward basic research, part of a wider assault on science.” - UnHerd

“Lest we slip into critical attitudes toward science, we must remember that science began with a mandate God gave in creation. God commanded Adam and Eve to have dominion over the earth and to subdue it…. The scientific enterprise is a part of that task.” - R.C. Sproul

“The declining belief in the importance of vaccines is essentially confined to Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, as the views of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have changed little over the past 24 years.” - Gallup

“All else being equal, those who said that the Bible is the literal word of God, for instance, scored 18% higher on our measure of general vaccine skepticism” - The Conversation

“Terms of derision are often used to dismiss others or the beliefs they espouse. Their use is, at its root, intellectual laziness. Rather than building a reasoned case for disagreement (or seeking a clearer understanding of the opposing idea), an epithet is launched to ‘settle’ the disagreement.” - GARBC

“America is a free country. We have freedom of religion, and if a person has a moral objection to taking the vaccine, we want to come alongside of them,” he said in a video interview. - C.Post

“Jackie Gale has never had a single vaccination because she believes that the Bible commands Christians to honor God regarding how the care for their bodies and not inject extra chemicals into one’s body, according to a letter to UAB President Ray L. Watts and the university’s lawyer John Daniel from First Liberty Institute attorney Christine Pratt.” - C.Post

“My point here is not to say that we must believe everything that the scientific community says about masks and social distancing and recommended shutdowns and vaccines. It is possible that there are some very terrible mistakes being made. But if so, they are just that: mistakes.

“One can fully grant the existence and usefulness of experts and expertise, yet also recognize from whence skepticism can derive. The problem is this: while credentialing experts solves one ‘cheap talk’ problem, it creates another, less recognized cheap talk problem. It’s the latter from whence skepticism derives.” - Law & Liberty

“On March 23, Falwell announced that the Lynchburg, Virginia, campus would reopen residence halls after spring break. ‘Our thinking was, “Let’s get [students] back as soon as we can—the ones who want to come back,”’….