Scientists Pushing Back at Conservative Distortions

[image error]This is a guest post by Dylan Otto Krider,  a skeptic, journalist and science fiction author whose work on the politicization of science has appeared in Skeptic, Dissent and other outlets (www.dylanottokrider.com).

Back in 2002, when I wrote for the Houston Press, Rush Limbaugh devoted a lot of air time to a scientific study that showed that oil was seeping up from lower depths into higher reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico, and relatively quickly in geologic time. There was also some...