Policymaking by ideology requires that reality be set aside… - Chris C. Mooney

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Policymaking by ideology requires that reality be set aside; it can be maintained only by moving towards ever more authoritarian forms of governance.

Chris C. Mooney

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Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20, 1977) is an American journalist and author of four books including The Republican War on Science (2005).

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When politicians use bad science to justify themselves, rather than good science to make up their minds, we can safely assume that wrongheaded and even disastrous decisions lie ahead.

Many decisions about science policy are made not through decision or analysis but on ideological and political grounds.

Today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles.

Policymaking by ideology requires that reality be set aside; it can be maintained only by moving towards ever more authoritarian forms of governance. - Chris C. Mooney

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