Derb on Science

Derb is feeling persecuted:

In very brief: Yes, I think science is under attack from both Left and Right. I also believe that the attack from the Left is a MUCH bigger threat–better armed, more ferocious, and international. One of the things that annoys me about the Intelligent Design people, in fact, is that they are distracting conservative scientists from the real fight, obliging them to squander their energy, while intellectual Left-fascists like the editorial writer of Science Week hold the high ground.

Here’s a scientific question: Just what kind of drugs do you have to be on to think that the left poses more of a threat to scientific method, practice, and discourse in the United States than the Right?

I suppose if you think that Charles Murray and Steve Sailer represent the epitome of good scientific research, then you would have cause to complain about the left. Still, it’s hard to imagine the mental gymnastics required to believe that lefty post-modernist attacks on science have anything close to the funding, backing, and popular appeal of the right wing assault on evolution, stem cells, and anything else that sticks in its craw this particular morning. Derb’s citation of this editorial by Science Week is particularly bizarre, since Derb apparently cannot tell the difference between “intellectual left fascists” and a critique of the appallingly bad science that Derb is trying to push.