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To: neolib who wrote (28369)	9/8/2006 9:39:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541099

Libertarians don't let ideology guide them in choosing their science any more than other political groups. I have provided some historical examples which say they do. You've done nothing of the sort. You've provided historical examples that some libertarians came down on the wrong side of specific scientific issues. That doesn't even automatically mean that they came down on the wont side of the issue solely or even primarily because of biases due to their ideology. Its quite possible that they did, maybe even likely but you haven't actually demonstrated even that. But lets assume for the sake of argument that its an airtight certainty that the reason for the inaccurate conclusion was ideological bias. That still doesn't show that they are more prone to ideological bias about science than any other political group. Which is largely why I'm biased (don't you like that!) against Libertarians. With a broad brush, they are ideologically motivated, not scientifically motivated. Again no more so than any other group defined by ideology. You show no reason to show that they are more biased the conservatives or liberals, they are I think clearly less biased the communists have been. Why pick on libertarians? If your going after librarians in general they aren't particularly biased about science. If your going after libertarian ideologues well than yes I suppose there would be a fair amount of bias but the same could be said about all ideologues. Either way I don't see any reason to single out libertarians. If your statement was made about libertarians, it could probably apple to people in general. If it was made about libertarian ideologues, you would do better just complaining about ideologues.