Saturday 4 June 2011

What geeks can learn from gays - Mark Stevenson argues for intolerance of pseudoscience

source: http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/NR/rdonlyres/5FD4C976-DC28-441B-A29F-0F5700D980A5/0/OpenspaceandSTEMinparliment.pdf

In the British Science Association, June 2011 issue of 'People & Science', Mark Stevenson argues for intolerance of pseudoscience citing John Beddington, Government Chief Scientific Advisor, remarks '‘We are grossly intolerant, and properly so, of racism. We are grossly intolerant, and properly so, of people who [are] antihomosexuality... We are not – and I genuinely think we should think about how we do this – grossly intolerant of pseudo-science, the building up of what purports to be science by the cherry-picking of the facts and the failure to use scientific evidence and the failure to use scientific method.’ (source: bengoldacre blog).

'You don’t have to be gay to care that society enshrines equal rights regardless of sexuality, and you don’t have to do science to be concerned that our society is evidence-based.'

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