{"id":23337,"date":"2011-03-15T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23337\/progressive-anti-science-agenda\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:46:32","slug":"progressive-anti-science-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23337\/progressive-anti-science-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Anti-Science Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had always thought that the anti-science agenda was part and parcel of the right wing.  I have found out that it is not.<\/p>\n<p>The progressive movement has engaged in a selective battle to limit science.  <\/p>\n<p>The progressive stance against development of nuclear energy based on new research and development is only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives seem also to be against the genetic research to increase food supply.  The results of this research has been made available to countries whose populations are starving, but progressives are still against it.<\/p>\n<p>Progressives seem to also be against water purification.  I remember in the 60s that it was the John Birch Society that led this charge and claimed it was a communist plot.<\/p>\n<p>I support all scientific research and all progress made by science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had always thought that the anti-science agenda was part and parcel of the right wing. I have found out that it is not. The progressive movement has engaged in a selective battle to limit science. The progressive stance against development of nuclear energy based on new research and development is only the tip of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}