Conservatives, Psychology, and Disasters

[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).

Days after 911, the FOX News science writer Steven Milloy published a column that fingered asbestos regulation for costing lives in the collapse World Trade Center towers. Immediately after the space shuttle disaster, Milloy blamed enviro-friendly foam.

Both charges, it turns out, were...