While Logsdon has not developed a complete theory to explain the United States' pro-science stance during that era, he attributes some of it to the liberal views of the President at that time, Richard M. Nixon.
Speaking as a conservative and as someone who has been a professor for 25 years, I disagree with Paul Krugman's belief that the large margin of Democrats over Republicans in academia is owing to any anti-science stance of Republicans.
It takes courage for a Republican to go against their party's anti-science stance, and that deserves respect).
He went on to say that adopting an "anti-science" stance was, for the GOP, a "losing position" and a "serious problem".
Fundamentalism's dangerous anti-science stance threatens the world's environment, reduces the efficacy of American education, and leaves citizens unprepared for life in a global economy.
In fact, I'd rather have a million Marshawn Lynch's than one Jenny McCarthy, whose anti-science stance on vaccines inspired a recent Los Angeles Times article titled Jenny McCarthy: anti-vaxxer, public menace.
We are losing members because of our anti-gay stance, our anti-science stance, and our anti-sex stance not to mention our long history of abuses and current trend of supporting the worse sort of laws.
"It's rare in literature and science that a stance goes so far against the grain".
The history of science undercuts Dawkins' stance.
They quietly express hope that the agenda is a move away from the government's previous hard stance on science, including the failure to appoint a dedicated science minister, closure of the independent Climate Commission, and an AU$420 million cut to the nation's lead research agencies, among them the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIROO).
Other philosophers, like Bruno Latour, challenge the overall stance of science.
