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To: koan who wrote (780225)	4/16/2014 8:59:44 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574499

I agree many liberals are nuts about vaccination and Floridated water, but fewer than conservatives. Maybe fluoridated water, but probably not vaccination. Certainly famous liberals are more likely to be nuts about vaccination than famous conservatives. I just quoted you the most recent research on early childhood development out of Stanford verified by brain scans.. Did you miss that post? It was pretty irrelevant. The issue is educational and life achievement, not brain scans. If the brain scan results look positive it doesn't mean much if the kids don't actually know more, test better, get higher grades, etc. <<Of course the best scientific information can easily be wrong.>> No it can't. IN fact given the vigorous peer review it is hard for it to be wrong!! Science* is wrong all the time. Oddly that's what makes it special. Well not so much that its wrong, but that it is a process of recognizing it is wrong and tossing out the clearly false results over time. Peer review is far less meaningful than many seem to think it is. What does matter is testing and retesting the conclusions of past research. It is common knowledge Republicans have an ongoing war with science. Its common knowledge that the left falsely claims Republicans, and/or conservatives are at war with all sorts of groups and things when there is no such war. In your case I think the false claim is based on honest belief, but I think often that isn't the case. But honest or not its largely false. * - Really that should be "the results of experiments" more than "science", science is more the process than it is any specific result or idea.