‘Junk science’ a staple of Democratic Party policy

Junk science can be hazardous to your health, but it’s long been a staple of Democratic Party policy. Consider the cases John Edwards won for parents of cerebral palsy victims: But the cause of cerebral palsy long has been debated, and two new studies in 2003 further undermined the scientific premise of Edwards’ cases, CNSNews.com … Continue reading “‘Junk science’ a staple of Democratic Party policy”

Junk science can be hazardous to your health, but it’s long been a staple of Democratic Party policy. Consider the cases John Edwards won for parents of cerebral palsy victims:

But the cause of cerebral palsy long has been debated, and two new studies in 2003 further undermined the scientific premise of Edwards’ cases, CNSNews.com reported.

“There are some cases where the brain damage did occur at the time of delivery. But it’s really unusual. It’s really quite unusual,” Dr. Murray Goldstein, a neurologist and the medical director of the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation, told the news agency.

“The overwhelming majority of children that are born with developmental brain damage, the ob/gyn could not have done anything about it, could not have, not at this stage of what we know,” Goldstein stated.

Along the same lines, we have the use of bogus social science to advance Democratic Party programs, such as Lenore Weitzman’s phony study of post-divorce living standards, Lenore Walker’s fanciful work on domestic violence, a vast array of crap on joint custody, made-up numbers on the costs of raising children, and polemics on gay child-rearing that correspond to nothing. On top of this, we have Democratic Party endorsement of junk anthropology coming out of the Kennewick Man debate, and it should become clear that Democrats are the anti-science party.