Republican War on Science Seminar: Index
Various commenters have suggested that the blog format for the seminar is hard to follow. In the hope of improving things, I’m posting an index. I think it should work particularly well with tabbed browsers. Anyway I’d appreciate advice on whether this makes it easier, or just adds to the confusion. My order isn’t the same as the posting order on the blog, but roughly matches Chris Mooney’s arrangement of his repsonse
Republican War on Science : Introduction to a Seminar by John Quiggin (introduction and overview)
War on Science by Ted Barlow
Worldwide War on Science by John Quiggin
The Stars and Stripes Down to Earth by Daniel Davies
Mooney Minus the Polemic? by John Holbo
War with the Newts by Henry Farrell
The war and the quarrels by Tim Lambert
If There’s a War, Please Direct Me to the Battlefield by Steve Fuller
The Revolution will not be Synthesized comment on Steve Fuller by Kieran Healy
War over Science or War on Science by John Quiggin
Man, You Guys Worked Me Hard…. Reply by Chris Mooney
Missing: Garfield’s War on Science
I appreciate you trying to improve things, but we’re not quite there yet. My suggestions:
1. set up a separate page for the seminar—link to it from the top of CT for as long as it’s in progress, if you like.
2. post on that page at a rate no greater than a post every hour or two—one of the biggest probelms with the current format is that with 8-10 posts on the same topic going up at once, who’s going to read them all? Also, when everyone posts at once, you lose the interactivity that is one of the main advantages of the online format.
3. on the seminar page, arrange posts in the usual blog order, with most recent at the top.
[...] Yes, I realise that doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as ‘The Republican War on Science‘, which is the name of a new book out by Chris Mooney as well as the name of the Crooked Timber blog seminar which discusses the book (link via LP). [...]
If anyone believes that the ‘War on Science’ is a purely Republican monstrosity, they should take a look at the efforts of the US Government over the past 35 years to stonewall objective research into the therapeutic aspects of cannabis. This trend of domestic Lysenkoism has been going on regardless of who’s in power.
nemo, what we have there is the permanent Republican majority in law enforcement (I should know, I’m surrounded by dittoheads at work), and wussy Democratic politicians who are scared spitless of challenging it.
Weird Science
This week’s Wednesday night DC Drinking Liberally event will feature author Chris Mooney, in what looks like an interesting event. Mooney is the author of The Republican War on Science, which argues that “the Republican Party has not only ignored…