Why most liberals create "science" organizations to promote their agenda using propaganda?

Question

Why most liberals create "science" organizations to promote their agenda using propaganda?

Answer 1

It's similar to... "My dad says..."  Science is also similar to a religion to many people. I find it difficult to put all my faith in science when I can point to countless examples of science being dead wrong. Like the soul is contained in the heart, the earth is flat, man will never break the sound barrier and even "you won't be able to breath if you were to travel at 50mph"  

I read a book when I was young called HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS.  If you can find it it is worth reading. It demonstrates the methods use to make the mundane seem significant

Answer 2

far too many people confuse conservatives with christianity and liberal with science. if you continue to divide your self and make attacks based upon fear and belief you will get nowhere with the people who question, test and study. science is fact nothing else. if you drop something it goes down...always .....2+2=4......always. fact is not propoganda....ever..now a book written 2000 years ago and edited almost 400 years ago who knows what of that is fact...when there are so many parts retranslated  changer and in some cases totally removed..... how can anyone with any logical sense call that truth.....????

Answer 3

It's too bad you didn't list any actual science organizations.  That would have been very helpful to actually answer your question.  But don't worry, I'll list a few agenda driven "science" organizations for you and then maybe someone can explain why "liberals" created them.

Council for Tobacco Research

Global Climate Coalition

Global Climate Information Project

The Heritage Foundation

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Friends of Science Society

Answer 4

The US Environmental Protection Agency and NASA are not organisations created by liberals and there are many more long standing reputable organisations.

Answer 5

and is this question anything more then conservative propaganda?

sure i see what you are saying anything thats not conservative is those evil libs

Answer 6

I thought all groups of people did this to feel less lonely. how do you think the Freemasons, CYO, Hippies, Greenpeace, VFW, Elks, Chamber of Commerce, AMA, Audubon Society, and the Neo-n***s all got started.

Answer 7

they create chaos and then promote victims who they claim they can help

Answer 8

Again with the " Liberals"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4ts3KOr...

why ?

Anyway

considering we don't have this "Liberal" problem in the UK, our ones are fine.

So listen to us- we are propaganda free.

Answer 9

like which ones?

i bet you consider these "liberal founded science organizations":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Ge...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Ch...

lmao - silly conservatives

Answer 10

To partially counteract the dozens of organizations spreading misinformation on the issue.  Take a look at this list of some of the organizations that have been funded by ExxonMobil alone:

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorg...

Here's more on ExxonMobil:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/...

Exxposing ExxonMobil's Agenda: Manipulating Politics and the Public

http://www.exxposeexxon.com/facts/dailyf...

They even create and distribute fake news:

http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr40

Then the brilliantly mislabeled "liberal media" presents the propaganda as if it were real science:

Media False Balancing Allowed Extreme Views to be Treated Same as Scientific Consensus

http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/Gl...

Here's an interesting collection of articles which discusses how the U.S. media uniquely supports the false appearance of controversy:

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/05...

The desire to display an appearance of "balance" makes the U.S. media easy for ExxonMobil and friends to influence.  That's why Americans are uniquely misinformed compared to citizens in other countries (it's embarrassing).

So the appearance of debate on global warming is funding from the industries that feel threatened if we do something to save ourselves: the oil, coal and auto industries.  Their junk science is gladly accepted by U.S. news programs, because they want ratings, which are directly tied to what they can charge for ads, and ratings are boosted by nurturing that appearance of controversy.

As a final proof point, if the oil industry had contradictory science, the supposedly skeptical Bush Administration would have it, and several hundred federal scientists would be doing something other than developing detailed carbon source information and mitigation strategies:

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sa...

http://co2conference.org/agenda.asp

The U.S. government public show of skepticism is simply a ruse, a delaying tactic.  Exxon was deeply involved in developing their energy policy.

What the heck, I'll list the Exxon-finded organizations:

60/Sixty Plus Association

Accuracy in Academia

Accuracy in Media

Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty

Africa Fighting Malaria

Air Quality Standards Coalition

Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

Alliance for Climate Strategies

American Coal Foundation

American Conservative Union Foundation

American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research

American Council on Science and Health

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies

American Friends of the Institute for Economic Affairs

American Legislative Exchange Council

American Petroleum Institute

American Policy Center

American Recreation Coalition

American Spectator Foundation

Americans for Tax Reform

Arizona State University Office of Cimatology

Aspen Institute

Association of Concerned Taxpayers

Atlantic Legal Foundation

Atlas Economic Research Foundation

Blue Ribbon Coalition

Capital Legal Foundation

Capital Research Center and Greenwatch

Cato Institute

Center for American and International Law

Center for Environmental Education Research

Center for Security Policy

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

Center for the New West

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

Centre for the New Europe

Chemical Education Foundation

Citizens for A Sound Economy and CSE Educational Foundation

Citizens for the Environment and CFE Action Fund

Clean Water Industry Coalition

Climate Research Journal

Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

Communications Institute

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Congress of Racial Equality

Consumer Alert

Cooler Heads Coalition

Council for Solid Waste Solutions

DCI Group

Defenders of Property Rights

Earthwatch Institute

ECO or Environmental Conservation Organization

European Enterprise Institute

ExxonMobil Corporation

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies

Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment

Fraser Institute

Free Enterprise Action Institute

Free Enterprise Education Institute

Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation

George C. Marshall Institute

George Mason University, Law and Economics Center

Global Climate Coalition

Great Plains Legal Foundation

Greening Earth Society

Harvard Center for Risk Analysis

Heartland Institute

Heritage Foundation

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University

Hudson Institute

Illinois Policy Institute

Independent Commission on Environmental Education

Independent Institute

Institute for Biospheric Research

Institute for Energy Research

Institute for Regulatory Science

Institute for Senior Studies

Institute for the Study of Earth and Man

Institute of Humane Studies, George Mason University

Interfaith Stewardship Alliance

International Council for Capital Formation

International Policy Network - North America

International Republican Institute

James Madison Institute

Junkscience.com

Landmark Legal Foundation

Lexington Institute

Lindenwood University

Mackinac Center

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Media Institute

Media Research Center

Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Mountain States Legal Foundation

National Association of Neighborhoods

National Black Chamber of Commerce

National Center for Policy Analysis

National Center for Public Policy Research

National Council for Environmental Balance

National Environmental Policy Institute

National Legal Center for the Public Interest

National Mining Association

National Policy Forum

National Wetlands Coalition

National Wilderness Institute

New England Legal Foundation

Pacific Legal Foundation

Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy

Peabody Energy

Property and Environment Research Center, formerly Political Economy Research Center

Public Interest Watch

Reason Foundation

Reason Public Policy Institute

Science and Environmental Policy Project

Seniors Coalition

Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP

Small Business Survival Committee

Southeastern Legal Foundation

Stanford University GCEP

Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)

Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station

Texas Public Policy Foundation

The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Inc.

The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition

The Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy

The Justice Foundation (formerly Texas Justice Foundation)

The Locke Institute

United for Jobs

University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc.

US Russia Business Council

Virginia Institute for Public Policy

Washington Legal Foundation

Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy

Western Fuels

World Affairs Councils of America

World Climate Report

Follow the links on this site to see a factsheet containing information about funding from Exxon-Mobil and see their spokespeople:

ttp://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listor...

ExxonMobil has profits of nearly $1B/week riding on delaying our knowledge and response.  There is far, far more at stake here than there was with the links between nicotene and addition, smoking and cancer.  The oil industry has learned from that history and is not only using the same tactics, but has been using the same people to shape your understanding of global warming:

http://www.nowpublic.com/whos_paid_to_de...

At Fox News, a Pundit for Hire

http://www.freepress.net/news/print.php?...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Mill...

http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11...

Answer 11

Exactly - It was the liberal mentality that created the "science" of Eugenics.  Many fine scientist and politicians believed Eugenics was real, put it into gvmt policy and look where that got us.

Liberal mentality also gives us science like what was described in the peer reviewed book "The Bell Curve".

Any time politics controls science it should be a danger sign.

Answer 12

they create science organizations to prove their point.and the only reason you label it "propaganda" is because you cant rebuttle their findings.sorry dude you need to change your name.

why is it that conservatives will believe someone with a online college degree in science over real scientist? and why does every response you have ever made on Y&A has some idiotic comment about liberals,are you that dense?

Answer 13

Everybody creates "science" organizations. And I mean everybody.