Tuesday, June 27, 2006

The Company You Keep

TNR's got a pal in Annie, who just loves their stuff. Ann considers criticism of the Bell Curve, by noted left-wingers such as James Heckman and Thomas Sowell, to be an example of a war on science by the left. From The Mayor of Loonyville's show last night:

COULTER: Right, this idea of the conservative war on science has just become this cliche that`s drummed into people, like, you know, "Bush lied, kids died," when, in fact, a casual, a cursory review of history shows, really, a 30- 30-year war by the left on science, because what science is, is looking at the world as it is, which is not always the way liberals would like it to be...

SCARBOROUGH: Give me some example, a quick example...

COULTER: ... from their cancer clusters, the breast implant litigation turned out to be false. Anything that ever shows a difference between races, between gays and straights, between blacks and whites, between races, the attack on Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein`s "The Bell Curve," which was...

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SCARBOROUGH: I was just going to say -- I was just going to say, it`s like "The Bell Curve." I remember the controversy that caused in the late -- I think late 1980s.


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