Over at Right Wing News: saccharin was dangerous, but now it’s not!
Science determined that saccharin was dangerous, until science (it appears) changed its mind.
That happens a lot, it seems, but it won’t stop the next scare. Over at Right Wing News:
I am surely not the first person to notice how the liberal view of science differs from the liberal view of the Constitution. The Constitution is “a living, breathing document,” that has to be interpreted in the context of today. The Founding Fathers’ intent isn’t as important as what we want it to mean today.
One could make the same statement about the Bible. Not the Koran, perhaps, but the Bible.
But science…science is sacrosanct. Untouchable. The Word, but with proof! Didn’t you read the study? It’s scientific fact!
I suppose I should mention that I’m not anti-science: I’m anti-overreacting to conclusions that may or may not be fully proven or, even if they are, all that big a deal. That seems to happen an awful lot.
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