the war on Science

by Shawn Lawrence Otto

This is the opposite of the protection of diverse viewpoints that was intended by the Founding Fathers, and it has inevitably run up against science on several occasions. The most current and prominent example is the complete rejection of climate science as a manufactured political project of socialists bent on a global takeover and the government-funded scientists who enable them. What Marketplace? But the argument for doing away with the doctrine was based on a faulty assumption: that ideas exist within a social dialogue akin to a marketplace in which journalistic truth has market value—that people want to hear it enough to pay extra, and that media with a variety of viewpoints will compete to deliver the highest-quality journalism for the best price. This is nonsense.