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The Raw Story Would Like To Drop Some "Science" On You

posted 4/22/2013 by the Salt City Sinner  As both of this bloggue’s readers know, I am no great fan of free-market economics. I am also no great fan of climate change deniers. I am, additionally, no great fan of the music of Peter Cetera, but that is beside the point (actually, my hatred of Peter Cetera is never REALLY that far from the front of my mind, but to everything there is a season &c.). Why, then, would I object to an   article  posted on popular liberal blog The Raw Story with the promising title “Study finds belief in free market economics predicts rejection of science” ? Spoiler alert: I object to it because it is total and complete crap. Here’s the methodology that some researchers from the University of Western Australia (GO FIGHTIN’   TRUCKS !) employed: The study of 1,377 people who visited climate change denial blogs found endorsement of laissez-faire free markets predicted the rejection of climate science and other established sc...