"Dan" wrote:


Ben has many talents, and many dollars. If he so chooses to fund, why
is that such a threat?

It isn't, really.

But it is illustrative of the current right wing impulse towards
anti-intellectualism. Stein is a good example of how modern right wing
ideology will deny any science it perceives as a threat to the party line.

Let the thoughts and arguments flow -- we don't need Grand Poobahs
declaring what we should or should not heed.

Even a liberal would concede to that?

Of course. But, once upon a time, conservatives claimed the scientific high
ground, chiding leftists for their post-modernist denials of empirical
knowledge. Now we see that when science gores right wing oxen,
"conservatives" cry conspiracy.