Pope Benedict XVI: Thanks For Supporting Science
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 15:32
in Psychology & Sociology
As American culture becomes more polarized, with various constituencies aligning themselves on left-right graphs, religious groups are not going to win with a subset of people, even among rational scientists who should be immune from motivated reasoning; if the Catholic church wants to hold a conference on stem cells but doesn't want to include the controversial and, to-date, wildly overhyped human embryonic stem cell research among its discussions of adult and induced pluripotent stem cell breakthroughs, it's all yelling about Galileo and bans and general political theater on blogs only read by people who need a new shot of confirmation bias. read more