Misguided Appeals To Science

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Having abandoned belief in any Moral Authority to the universe, liberal revolutionaries have been claiming the mantle of science as justification for their agenda for far longer than I can remember. And their hijacking of the word has resulted in great success for them politically and culturally. My only question remains, how long will our society be stupid enough to keep buying it?
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But yet these same folks who claim that sexual attraction is unalterable are also the ones who insist that men like Bruce Jenner, undeniably born with genetic maleness (DNA, chromosomes, bone structure, and functioning reproductive organs of a male) can somehow “become” a woman. Yes, the “party of science” would have you believe that your attractions are unchangeably genetic in nature, but your genetic biology is a matter of personal opinion.
Call me crazy, but I think when your agenda convinces you that a white woman like Rachel Dolezal can be black, a Caucasian like Elizabeth Warren can be a Cherokee Indian, a man like Bruce Jenner can be a woman, and an attention-obsessed girl like Miley Cyrus can be something called “gender fluid,” it’s pretty clear your ideology finds its origin in a circus tent rather than a laboratory.
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Writing in the New Republic, Dr. Jen Gunter protested that the “specimens” being harvested are not “baby parts,” but rather, mere “products of conception.”
While the euphemism is annoying enough, let’s ask a simple question: if Planned Parenthood offered the biotech firms a goat liver instead of the liver from one of these “products of conception,” would they find receptive buyers? Of course not. The parts are desired precisely because they are human parts. It is either rubber-room insanity or an intentional abuse of sound science that causes someone to dismiss the humanity of life being extinguished in the womb, all while Planned Parenthood’s profit is completely dependent upon that very humanity.
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the “scientists” on the left oppose evil fossil fuels because of a fear of global warming, let’s not forget they also oppose nuclear energy because it’s too dangerous, protest wind farms because they kill birds, and block the expansion of hydroelectric power because dams destroy aquatic ecosystems.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/the_lefts_circus_tent_science.html

August 9, 2015
The Left's Circus Tent Science
By Peter Heck