http://blog.billbrantley.com Random notes on politics, government, science, and technology. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/02/11/the-office-of-technology-assessment-conspiracy-theory/ http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/02/11/the-office-of-technology-assessment-conspiracy-theory/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:21:24 +0000 bill http://blog.billbrantley.com/?p=155 When I watch the GOP’s use of junk science such as the recent attempt to demonstrate that the snowstorm in DC disproves global warming, my belief that the GOP’s first action after the 1994 Congressional victories in killing the Office of Technology Assessment was to insure that the rest of their agenda would have more success in passing.  It is well-documented that much of the GOP’s agenda rests upon the significant number of voters who are scientifically-illiterate.

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