Science might produce facts impervious to their crying and hysterics. Even at college re-education camps, it's striking that the chemical engineering and economics departments are jam-packed with Republicans, while liberals are all taking French. As with their sudden new interest in the military, liberals invoke "science" only as a cudgel to end debate. Actual science excites them only if it involves some sort of Nazi experimentation with human embryos.

When Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life landed on the shelves in 1994, liberals responded with their usual open-mindedness to scientific facts. The 850-page book represented eight years of collaboration between Herrnstein, a Harvard psychology professor, and Murray, a political scientist. The Bell Curve synthesized mountains of data culled mostly from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), a federal study testing the intelligence of more than 10,000 Americans beginning in 1980, with regular follow-ups for many years thereafter. Contrary to the party line denying that such a thing as IQ existed, the book methodically demonstrated that IQ exists, it is easily measured, it is heritable, and it is extremely important.

The book—all but one chapter—dealt exclusively with the influence of IQ on white people's lives. After years of censorship on the subject of IQ, the entire book was a stunning revelation. Once the taboo was shattered and the unspeakable was spoken, IQ

turned out to be an extraordinary commodity. Among many other things, IQ is a better predictor than socioeconomic status of poverty, unemployment, criminality, divorce, 113

single motherhood, workplace injuries, and high school dropout rates. The ability to speak different languages is not correlated with IQ, but nearsightedness is. Spouses tend to have closer IQs than siblings. Although other factors influence IQ, such as a good home environment and nutrition, The Bell Curve authors estimated that IQ was about 40

to 80 percent genetic.

In a rare editorial about a book, the New York Times said The Bell Curve was "a flame-throwing" book with "a grisly thesis."' The Times was suspicious of the "aura of scientific certitude" to The Bell Curve, calling the scientific findings "ugly" and vowing that they would soon be challenged by other experts in the field. Not yet—but soon! The Times denounced Murray as "a political ideologue who uses social science data to support his policy preferences," and then launched into an irrelevant tirade on the "long and sordid history" of "bigots" who used " `scientific' evidence that blacks, or American Indians, or Jews, to name three targets, were of inferior stock."2

Having spent decades rigorously enforcing the taboo against any mention of IQ in any context, ever—with a narrow exception for remarks about the IQs of Republican presidential candidates—the Times complained that The Bell Curve "belabor[s] the well-known fact that the average IQ of blacks is 15 points below that of whites." I'm going out on a limb to say that fact was not well known to readers of the Times. Indeed, the indignant denunciations of the book were never clear on whether the problem was that The Bell Curve was wrong or that it was old news.

An article in BusinessWeek said that to call the "opinions" in The Bell Curve

"scientific truth" was "downright dangerous." In fact, the book was nothing but "a house of cards constructed to push a political agenda."3 Newsweek branded Murray "an intellectual snake charmer" who wrote a book that took a "deeply angry" view. The magazine added that Murray "vehemently denies he is racist."4 Columnist Ellen Goodman said she suspected Murray and Herrnstein had raised the issue of genes and environment influencing racial differences in IQ solely "in order to break thètaboo'

against fanning racist sentiments."5 Newsday columnist Robert Reno calmly said of the book, "The slop Murray has served up is not only unappetizing, but warmed over.

Proving the inferiority of races has for 100 years been the mischief of self-promoting scholars as credentialed as Murray and as squalid as the louts who churned out thèscience' behind Dr. Goebbels' loath-some ravings."6 Only liberals could interpret a statement that people have varying IQs as a call to start killing people.

After the furor over the book died down, it came out that psychometricians had known the truth all along. They had been lying to the public about IQ In light of the calm and measured response to Murray and Herrnstein's book, one could see why.

A few years later, the American Psychological Association formed a Task Force on Intelligence in response to the publication of The Bell Curve and issued a report basically admitting the truth of all the book's major conclusions.' Among these were:

• "Differences in genetic endowment contribute substantially to individual differences in [psychometric] intelligence . . ."; and

• "The differential between the mean intelligence test scores of Blacks and Whites (about one standard deviation, although it may be diminishing) does not result from any obvious biases in test construction and administration, nor does it simply reflect differences in socio-economic status."

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So much for the New York Times's claim that as soon as "unlike-minded scholars have time to react, they will subject its findings to withering criticism."8

Liberals were afraid of a book that told the truth about IQ because they are godless secularists who do not believe humans are in God's image. Christians have no fear of hearing facts about genetic differences in IQ because we don't think humans are special because they are smart. There may be some advantages to being intelligent, but a lot of liberals appear to have high IQs, so, really, what's the point? After Hitler carried the secularists' philosophy to its bloody conclusion, liberals became terrified of making any comment that seems to acknowledge that there are any differences among groups of people—especially racial groups. It's difficult to have a simple conversation, much less engage in free-ranging, open scientific inquiry, when liberals are constantly rushing in with their rule book about what can and cannot be said.

Among the most absurd results of liberals' unbridgeable commitment to nondiscrimination was their insistence on suppressing the truth about AIDS and scaring Americans into believing that heterosexuals were as much at risk for acquiring AIDS as gays and intravenous drug users. Once again, the science had to be lied about so no one's feelings got hurt. But in contrast to liberal preachiness about IQ, there would be no moralizing when it came to sex. Anal sex, oral sex, fisting, dental dams, "birthing games"—all that would be foisted on unsuspecting children in order to protect kindergartners from the scourge of AIDS. As one heroine of the sex education movement told an approving New York Times reporter, "My job is not to teach one right value system. Parents and churches teach moral values. My job is to say, `These are the facts,'

and to help the students, as adults, decide what is right for them."9

At least when Herrnstein and Murray talked about IQ, they got the facts right. Liberal sex educators claimed to be slaves to the facts—not to subjective moral values like promoting abstinence—but they spent most of the eighties orchestrating a massive campaign of lies about AIDS, as copiously documented by science writer Michael Fumento.

The high-water mark of liberal lies about AIDS came in 1985, when Life magazine's cover proclaimed, "NOW, NO ONE IS SAFE FROM AIDS."

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter praised the responsibility of the press in writing about AIDS, saying the Life cover "may have crossed the line, but not by much."1O It's been twenty years, and we're still waiting for that heterosexual outbreak.

A 1985 issue of People magazine began an article on AIDS warning that the disease

"poses a growing threat to heterosexuals." (And the folks at People wonder why they're no longer considered a legitimate science journal.) Associated Press "science writer"

Malcolm Ritter approvingly quoted an AIDS activist saying "there's nothing inherent in homosexuality or drug use that leads to AIDS." Evidently, Ritter is a "science writer"

much the way Cindy Sheehan is a "geopolitical expert."

The Chicago Tribune "science writer" quoted the head of California's AIDS research task force saying it was "highly likely that the disease will spread into the heterosexual population." Tribune columnist Bob Greene followed up with a piece titled "The AIDS

Epidemic: Not for Gays Only," in which he ominously concluded, "If you never gave AIDS a second thought before, it's time to start thinking."12 This was a few years before Bob Greene was dismissed from his Tribune job for having sex with a teenage reader.

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Let's just hope it was safe sex.13

"Dear Abby" informed her readers, "AIDS is not exclusively a homosexual disease.

An increasing number of cases are being found among heterosexual (straight) men and women. All sexually active men and women, gay or straight, should be concerned."14

Yes—especially when they share dirty needles with street junkies!

A few years would go by and the great heterosexual outbreak still wouldn't materialize, but it seemed to be constantly just around the corner. In 1987, Oprah Winfrey said, "Research studies now project that one in five—listen to me, hard to believe—one in five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS at the end of the next three years. That's by 1990. One in five. It is no longer just a gay disease. Believe me."15

In 1987, U.S. News & World Report said, "The disease of them is suddenly the disease of us . . . finding fertile growth among heterosexuals."

In 1988, ABC's 20/20 cited a study of AIDS cases on college campuses, claiming these were all heterosexual infections. It struck no one at ABC as odd that 28 of the 30

infections on college campuses had occurred in men.

Then, two years later, CNN reported on the rerelease of that same 1988 study, and concluded, "A new report from CDC indicates that AIDS is on the rise on college campuses." As Michael Fumento remarked, "Only with AIDS can an old study be declared an alarming increase over itself."

In 1992, PBS broadcast a program that claimed a single condom can save "hundreds of lives."16 It would have to be "a hell of a condom," Fumento said. (Maybe if you used it to plug up a leaky life raft . . .) The program was sponsored in part by a condom manufacturer, so liberals were willing to suspend their opposition to greedy profit-making corporations in this one instance."

After a decade-long epidemic with more than a million infections, in November 1992

the Centers for Disease Control listed only 2,391 cases of AIDS transmission by white heterosexuals—and that included hemophiliacs and blood transfusion patients.

The most recent figures from the CDC—now called the "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" in a stupid bureaucratic redundancy—show that through the end of 2004, almost 70 percent of AIDS victims in America acquired the virus through homosexual sex or intravenous drug use. Only 13 percent of cases are even alleged to be through heterosexual conduct. As Fumento has pointed out, determinations of the method of transmission are based almost entirely on self-reports and no one who got the virus from heterosexual sex lies and says he got it from homosexual sex or intravenous drug use, but the reverse is not true.

Intriguingly, black and Hispanic men—groups that have been slow to embrace Queer Theory—were five times more likely than white men to claim to have gotten AIDS from heterosexual contact. When the CDC performed a follow-up investigation on AIDS

reports from two Florida counties, more than half of the cases of men who claimed to have contracted AIDS from heterosexual sex had to be reclassified as homosexual transmissions. This took little effort in some cases. The CDC simply looked at the men's medical records and moved men with rectal STDs from the "heterosexual transmission"

category to the "homosexual transmission" category. Men with symptoms that are frequently, but not exclusively, associated with homosexual sex, such as a loose sphincter muscle, remained in the "heterosexual trans-mission" category.78

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AIDS doesn't discriminate, they simultaneously insisted that no one should worry about sharing towels or utensils with AIDS sufferers. That message might have been a little clearer if some-one had simply said, Just don't have anal sex with them! Liberals also may have been sending mixed messages by saying in one breath that "AIDS is not a gay disease" and that Ronald Reagan was a homophobe for not allotting more federal funding to find a cure.

At least we could count on the government not to politicize science. That is, unless the surgeon general was more interested in being called brave by the mainstream media than in giving Americans the truth. In June 1987, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a "Report on AIDS" that said, "Although the initial discovery was in the homosexual community, AIDS is not a disease only of homosexuals. AIDS is found in heterosexual people as well. AIDS is not a black or white disease. AIDS is not just a male disease. AIDS is found in women; it is found in children."

The pamphlet droned on and on about the danger of heterosexual AIDS, warning that

"[h]eterosexual persons are increasingly at risk" and "[h]eterosexual transmission is expected to account for an in-creasing proportion of those who become infected with the AIDS virus in the future." Although "[a]bout 70 percent of AIDS victims throughout the country are male homosexuals and bisexuals," Koop said, "this percentage probably will decline as heterosexual transmission increases."19 Twenty years later and the percentage hasn't budged.

Koop was a major advocate of teaching schoolchildren to use condoms, because, he said, "There is now no doubt that we need sex education in schools and that it must include information on heterosexual and homosexual relationships."20 AIDS does not discriminate!

Koop took his campaign on the road, describing heterosexual sex as the sort of "very high risk behavior" that could lead to AIDS. He mentioned homosexual sex third in his list of "high risk behavior" that could transmit AIDS.21 In 1987, the CDC predicted that AIDS would be the number-one killer on campus by 1991.22

It was as if the government had issued a scientific report stating, "Sharks will eat people, but so will rainbow trout!"—so as not to stigmatize sharks.

While gays were being decimated by the AIDS virus, Koop was more interested in not "stigmatizing" them than in saving their lives. See, where I come from being dead also carries a certain type of stigma. Instead of distributing condoms in gay bars and at Madonna concerts where they might have done some good, Koop insisted on distributing condoms in kindergarten classes, in order to emphasize the point that AIDS does not discriminate, which it does.

C. Everett had clearly flown the Koop. Yet with each more insane statement, Koop was hailed in the media for speaking truth to power. It almost got to the point where Dr.

Koop's distinctive look—the gay Amish Navy guy in the Village People—seemed more sane than the things he was saying about AIDS. Soon he was advocating teaching kindergartners about anal sex and AIDS.23 This stance made Koop more popular than John Hinckley with liberals.

In 1987, New York Times reporter Maureen Dowd—before she was elevated to the cartoon pages—wrote a heroic portrait of the man. Dr. Koop, she said, "fiercely wants to strip AIDS of its stigma," and for that reason, he talks "about making an animated educational video that would feature two condoms `with little eyes on them' chatting, and 117

about the need for `gentle, non-mystifying' sex education for students, starting in kindergarten."24 I would pay quite a bit of money to hear someone describe anal sex—oh heck, make it any kind of sodomy—to a five-year-old in a gentle, non-mystifying way.

For wanting to teach kindergartners about condoms and anal sex, liberals swooned over Koop. Representative Henry Waxman called Koop "a man of heroic proportions."

Koop himself boasted of all the praise he was getting from some of the most heinous people in America: "Obviously, it's gratifying to have people like Senator Edward Kennedy and Henry Waxman saying I have integrity."25 Koop's sodomy lessons, Clinton's non-euclidean sex romps, Jocelyn Elders's masturbation musings—all you have to do to become a liberal icon in this country is discuss non-coital sex in graphic detail with small children.

Conservatives were not so enthralled with Koop's plan to intro-duce talking condoms

"with little eyes" to kindergartners in response to the AIDS epidemic—an epidemic notable for not being spread by show-and-tell, peanut butter sandwiches, and nap time.

Naturally, therefore, Koop's conservative critics were accused of being against "science."

Koop wrote a letter to the Washington Post complaining that "[p]arents are uncomfortable with the science of reproduction,"26 which would raise questions about how they became parents in the first place. Is Dr. Koop comfortable with the notion of the oxymoron? Inasmuch as the kind of sex Dr. Koop seemed bent on teaching kindergartners does not result in reproduction, he may have been the one who needed a lesson. The New York Times echoed Koop, saying conservatives were "enraged" by Koop's "emphasis on science rather than values."27 Whenever liberals say values must take a back seat to "science," you know you're not getting values or science. In fact, I get a little nervous whenever liberals use the word backseat.

For liberals, not making moral judgments is the very essence of science. On that theory, Howard Stern should be curing cancer and inventing cold fusion any day now. To great acclaim, Koop went around saying things like "I'm not here to make moral judgments. I'm here to save people if I can."28 But of course Koop was making moral judgments. As he courageously told Dowd, "I hate injustice of any kind" (and let the chips fall where they may!). Warming to his subject, Koop continued, more bravely, "and I don't like to see people excoriated in the midst of illness because there's some other part of their life style that people don't like."29 Koop made the personal decision to withhold true information from gays rather than let them feel stigmatized.

That is what's known as "a moral judgment." Still Koop blathered on and on about his heroism in excluding "morals"—meaning moral codes that have been around for thousands of years in contradistinction to morals about not stigmatizing people because of their "life-style," which were invented in 1970. So a lot of gay guys were going to die needlessly, but dead or alive, they'd all feel good about their "lifestyle" choices. Because liberals shared Koop's moral values, they praised him for lying about science and denounced his detractors as anti-science.

A year later, Koop admitted under oath in congressional hearings that only about 4

percent of adult AIDS transmissions worldwide could be traced to heterosexual contact, and that in the United States only 2.3 percent of AIDS cases came from heterosexual contact, and "most of that is in sexual partners of IV drug abusers."30 In other words, the entire, years-long AIDS Threatens Straight People Too PR campaign was a total lie from start to finish.

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At the end of the year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control were back at it, unveiling a major AIDS awareness ad campaign in which—according to one perplexed reporter asking questions at the press conference—"All the ads pertain[ed] to heterosexual behavior."37

Koop's campaign had its intended effect. (And not just because his freakish appearance discouraged heterosexual relations in general.) First and most important, the Washington Post hailed him as "that rarest of Washington officials—a rugged individualist who follows his own agenda, not a predictable ideologue who espouses the party line."32 This tripe about rugged individualism was, of course, immediately parroted by every other major media outlet.

Second: Everyone was terrified of contracting AIDS. AIDS hot-lines were ringing off the hook, mostly with calls from heterosexuals.33 In San Diego, Mothers Against AIDS—

working tirelessly to counter the lies being put out by Mothers for AIDS—organized a demonstration around Mother's Day to encourage women and their families to take AIDS

tests in order to "destigmatize" AIDS tests, according to Teddie Pincus, one of the organizers.34 Yes, there's nothing like a traditional Mother's Day complete with hysterical house-wives lecturing one another on the dangers of anal sex.

Let's be clear on what happened here: HHS, the CDC, and the surgeon general's office, with the full cooperation of the media, deliberately put millions of lives needlessly at risk by disseminating misinformation on AIDS rather than risk stigmatizing a single gay person, however slightly. And when parents objected to their schoolchildren being taught about anal sex, Koop said they were uncomfortable with "science."

IF SCIENCE must be suppressed to ensure that gays don't feel singled out, there is no limit to the book burning that must be undertaken to avoid upsetting the ladies. At a January 2005 conference on women in the sciences, then-Harvard president Larry Summers commented that men and women might have different innate abilities in math and science, which led to fainting spells by women in attendance and raised questions about a whole different set of innate differences. In a perfect world, the women's histrionics would have triggered a discussion on women and irony.

Summers began his rather tepid remarks by saying he intended to be "controversial"

and "to provoke you." He even laid it on thick about "passive discrimination" against women, which—according tohim—no one can deny. But then Summers said, "[I]n the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude."

That was the phrase that kicked off the trial of Galileo. The effect was roughly that of telling a room full of gay men that Judy Garland couldn't sing worth a damn. It turns out that innate intelligence differences between the sexes is a topic that may not be discussed on university campuses for fear of giving distaff professors the vapors. Summers ran

"continuing discrimination" around the block again, concluding that he "would like nothing better than to be proved wrong." But it was too late. There weren't enough fainting couches in the room to deal with the response from nauseated female professors forced to contemplate the possibility of innate differences in ability between men and women.

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Some of the women paired off and went to the ladies' room to discuss possible responses. Others went on eating binges. Most chose to just sit there sobbing. A quick show of hands revealed that every woman in attendance needed a hug.

The Best in Show award went to MIT biology professor Nancy Hopkins, who told the Washington Post, "I felt I was going to be sick." She continued, "My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow."35 (Some might describe Hopkins's response to Summers's re-marks as "womanish.") Hopkins told the Boston Globe she had to flee the room because otherwise she "would've either blacked out or thrown up,"36 proving that you can become a full professor of biology at MIT without realizing that women and men are innately different. Can anyone imagine evangelicals behaving this way if someone mentioned evolution? Would they flee a room crying if Dr. Koop showed them talking condoms? Only the feminists can behave like children with so little reflection.

A few days later, Professor Hopkins explained her emotional reaction to Summers's remarks on NBC's Today show, saying she was shocked by what he said because "there is research now that shows very clearly that there is unconscious bias in how we make judgments, and this unconscious bias can really influence our decisions in ways we are not aware of."37 (She also did a cooking segment with Katie Couric on that same show. I guess some gender stereotypes die harder than others.) So in the case of evaluating women's mathematical abilities, liberals' idea of "science" consists of invisible forces that we "are not aware of," but if anyone denies them, liberal women will run from the room, threatening to throw up.

In strict accordance with the scientific method, a Wiccan ritual expelling Summers's remarks had to be performed—rounds of protests, letter writing, marches, apologies, concluding with a "no-confidence" vote on Summers from the Harvard faculty. Written summaries of Summers's noxious remarks were burned in every room like bundles of sage to cleanse the air of negative vibes.

If Summers's milquetoast remarks caused fainting and nausea in the ladies, they should hear what I think about women's genetic endowments! They'd have me burned at the stake—if Cambridge weren't a "smoke-free zone."

These delicate hothouse flowers have a completely neurotic response to something someone else says—and then act like it's Summers's fault. Only a woman could shift the blame this way. If I hit you with a sledgehammer, that is my fault. But if I propose a scientific idea and you vomit, I think that's really more your fault. Perhaps to improve girls' scores on the SATs, a section on blame shifting should be added to the math section.

WHAT liberals mean by science is never what a normal person would understand the term to convey—facts, subject to independent verification, capable of being disproved, and not alterable by crying jags. They mean banning alar and DDT, or teaching kindergartners about anal sex, or Connie Chung interviewing women who believe their breast implants made them sick. Or they mean former senator John Edwards pretending that unborn children were speaking through him in order to coax large monetary awards from juries.

Using junk science, trial lawyer Edwards engaged in paranormal conversations with 120

the dead to convince jurors that obstetricians—rich obstetricians with big insurance plans—caused cerebral palsy in babies by not performing cesarean sections soon enough.

As part of his scientific case, Edwards literally claimed to channel the unborn child in front of juries. "She speaks to you through me and I have to tell you right now—I didn't plan to talk about this—right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you." Edwards—or as he's known in the courtroom, the Fetus Whisperer—continued, "She said at 3, Ì'm fine.' She said at 4, Ì'm having a little trouble, but I'm doing OK.' Five, she said, Ì'm having problems.' At 5:30, she said, Ì need out.'

"38 (Oddly enough, the little critter didn't add, "And by the way, I'm pro-life," which I think would have been prudent under the circumstances.) In the years since Edwards told juries he could "feel" the unborn babies "inside" him, winning fabulous jury awards—and attorney's fees for himself—it has been quietly admitted that there is no connection between cerebral palsy and the method of delivery.

As the New York Times reported in 2004, "Studies indicate that in most cases, the disorder is caused by fetal brain injury long before labor begins."39 During the 2004

presidential campaign, in which Edwards was the Democrats' vice presidential candidate, a Johns Hopkins neurology professor wrote to the Washington Post to say "we now know" that the science on which Edwards's jury awards were based was false and that most "cerebral palsy is due to developmental abnormalities occurring during pregnancy or due to subtle infection near the time of delivery."40 This is another way of saying that the Democrats' 2004 VP candidate was a proven huckster whose $50 million personal fortune of ill-gotten gain was amassed by defrauding doctors, jurors, and insurance companies. And yet the Johns Hopkins professor—channeling Zippy the Chimp—said he supported the Kerry-Edwards ticket anyway.

As a result of such lawsuits, there are now more than four times as many cesarean sections as there were in 1970. But curiously, there has been no reduction in babies born with cerebral palsy. All those cesareans have, however, increased the mother's risk of death, hemorrhage, infection, pulmonary embolism, and Mendelson's syndrome, while also driving up the cost of medical care for every man, woman, and child in America. Not only that, but those "little guys" John Ed-wards claimed to represent are having a lot more trouble finding doctors to deliver their babies. Insurance companies are getting out of the medical malpractice business and doctors are getting out of the obstetrics business rather than pay malpractice insurance in excess of $100,000 a year.41 All that for a paranormal lounge act just slightly more believable than Johnny Carson's mentalist character Carnac the Magnificent.

Then there was the liberal "science" that bankrupted the company Dow Corning. This time, liberals relied on the research not of serious scientific experts like trial lawyers, but of CBS News anchorwoman and noted biochemistry authority Connie Chung. In 1990, Chung hosted a sensationalistic report on the danger of breast implants, warning that, for some women, "It may be too late."

Pursuing the rigorous fact-checking methods that have made CBS News what it is today, Chung's report consisted of interviews with three women who were "convinced"

their breast implants had caused health problems. Apart from fatigue, which they each had, their symptoms were completely different. One woman had "flulike symptoms—

swollen glands, fevers, chills, sweats, sore throats." Based on her indications, my theory is this woman had the flu. I'm not a medical doctor, but then again neither is Connie 121

Chung. Another woman suffered constant pain. The third had mouth ulcers, hair loss, skin rashes, and fevers. As Chung summarized the evidence, "There are no statistics on how many women have become ill because of their implants"42—making it one of countless imaginary illnesses for which there are also no statistics. There are no statistics on how many women have become ill from watching Connie Chung. The fact that I frequently experience nausea while watching Connie Chung on TV is "anecdotal," not

"statistical," evidence.

It was the perfect David and Goliath story for the media: Erin Brockovich and Halliburton all rolled into one. CBS was so pleased with the program, it ran it again in November 1991, with Chung smugly remarking that her implant special program had

"unleashed a torrent of protests and investigations around the country"—mostly by disgruntled topless dancers and their despondent customers. Even so, everybody has a right to be heard.

The next year, in 1992, FDA Commissioner David Kessler banned silicone breast implants—not because the FDA had found anything wrong with silicone in the body but because women were hysterical. Kessler was too busy taping up "No Smoking" signs all over Washing-ton to bother reviewing the medical literature, so he appointed a panel to review implant safety, and the panel advised keeping them on the market. He told them to think it over some more. They did, and again advised keeping them on the market. But Kessler was a pediatrician, and if a baby doctor doesn't know about something used exclusively by adult women, who does? Dr. Connie Chung said breast implants were dangerous, so there had to be a moratorium.

After Kessler's moratorium, the trickle of lawsuits against implant manufacturers became a deluge. Within three years, Dow Corning was in bankruptcy proceedings. By then, more than twenty epidemiological studies had been performed on silicone breast implants, all of which showed no connection between implants and disease. But juries continued to give plaintiffs massive awards, eventually totaling more than $7 billion—

more than one-third of which went to the trial lawyers. Like the implants themselves, the settlements were so large that one began to wonder just how large they could get before they started to look ridiculous.

Finally, federal judges became concerned the courts were becoming accessories to a scam. They convened a panel of scientists to ex-amine the science behind the breast implant litigation. In December 1998, after two years of reviewing all the literature on silicone implants, testimony from the parties' experts, and the advice of their own experts, the panel concluded there was no connection between breast implants and disease.43

Where does Dow Corning go to get its money back? Why are trial lawyers allowed to say, "Too late!" Car manufacturers can't say, "Sorry! The defective product we were wrong about is already out there. Can't take it back now." In the case of breast implants, liberal "science" consisted of sensational news reports on CBS's Face to Face with Connie Chung.

Alar was a perfectly safe substance that had been used on apples since 1968 to both ripen and preserve them. It made fresh fruit more affordable and available by allowing fruit pickers to make one sweep through the apple grove to pick the apples and then distribute them with less risk of spoilage. Because of a lunatic scare ginned up by a phalanx of Hollywood actresses like Meryl Streep, the EPA banned alar, and poor people went back to eating Twinkies instead of healthy fresh fruit. The tests that persuaded the 122

EPA bureaucrats and Holly-wood actresses that alar might cause cancer in humans involved feeding so much alar to rats—tens of thousands times more than what a human would eat—that most of the rats died of poisoning, not tumors. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization advised against a ban on alar, and Europeans continued to eat alar-preserved fruit in their nice warm houses powered by nuclear energy.

Shortly after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina—to date this, it was around the time liberals were accusing blacks in New Orleans of engaging in cannibalism—Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote a column claiming "global warming" caused the hurricane. The only human malady RFK Jr. hasn't blamed on global warming is Mary Jo Kopechne's death.

Even "global warming" devotees at the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have said there is variation in hurricanes from decade to decade, "with no significant trends over the twentieth century evident." RFK's theory might have gotten more traction but for the sudden groundswell of support for the theory that George Bush caused the hurricane.

A sparrow does not a spring make, but in the Druid religion of environmentalism, every warm summer's breeze prompts apocalyptic demands for a ban on aerosol spray and plastic bags. In 1998, President Clinton denounced Republicans for opposing his environmental policies, such as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce emissions of car-bon dioxide. This, after the Senate rejected the Kyoto agreement by the slender margin of 95–

0. In fact, all the world's major industrial powers initially rejected the treaty, including Japan. That's right: even Kyoto rejected Kyoto. But soon, some countries began to realize that they could sign Kyoto while being exempt from having to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, such as China and India, two of the world's biggest polluters. Others signed it and then proceeded to increase their greenhouse emissions, like Canada. By 2005, Canada was producing 24 percent more carbon monoxide than it had in 1990, whereas the United States was producing only 13 percent more.

But Clinton urged immediate action on global warming. As proof that urgent action was needed, he cited Florida's inordinately warm weather in a single month: "June was the hottest month they had ever had—hotter than any July or August they had ever had."

Yes, and then November–December 2000 were the two coldest months in U.S. history.44

It's a big country; it's always the "coldest" or "hottest" someplace.

Adding to the world's supply of hot air, Laurie David, "Environmental Activist"

and—more relevantly—wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David, said at the end of 2005,

"We just came through a September which was the hottest month since records were taken."45 Except in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Aberdeen's hottest days were in July 1936, when the temperature hit 115 degrees on two days.46 Ottawa still hasn't matched the record of 1955, its hottest summer ever. January 1977 was Ohio's coldest month ever.47

In Omaha, the coldest month was February 1936, and its second-coldest month was December 1983.48 January 1998 was Denver's fifth-driest on record.49 And in January 2004, Boston had its coldest month in seventy years. In fact, maybe what we're seeing now is the beginning of the new ice age that some of these same scientists were predicting back in the 1970s. The law of large numbers means that someplace will always be having its hottest, coldest, wettest, or driest month.

Environmentalists claim this statistical inevitability proves global warming. As Steven Guilbeault of Greenpeace explained, "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter." No set of facts can disprove the environmentalists'

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secular religion. In 2004, former vice president Al Gore gave a speech on global warming in New York City on the coldest day of the year. Warm trends prove global warming.

Cold trends also prove global warming. This is the philosophy of a madman.

In 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produced a computer model purportedly proving "a discernible human influence on global climate." So according to the UN, there was not enough evidence to determine if Saddam Hussein was a threat, but the evidence is in on global warming. The key to the UN's global warming study was man's use of aerosol spray. You have to know the French were involved in a study concluding that Arrid Extra Dry is destroying the Earth. In the big picture, which would be a bigger threat to the global ecosystem: encroaching oceans flooding the world's coastal cities, or the rest of the world adopting French deodorant habits?

According to global warming hysterics, global warming would begin at the poles and melt the ice caps, and then the oceans would rise. On the basis of such fatuous theories, in August 1998 the host of NPR's Science Friday, Ira Flatow, told his listeners to look out their windows and imagine the ocean in their own backyards. Explaining that receding glaciers in Antarctica would dramatically lift sea levels, he warned that their grandchildren could be "hanging fishing poles out of New York skyscrapers," thus qualifying as the teller of the world's all-time greatest "fish story." On the plus side, maybe I could get a decent price for my place in Manhattan if I could list it as "steps from the beach."

Since then, evidence disproving "global warming" has been pouring in. In January 2002, the journal Science published the findings of scientists who had been measuring the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Far from melting, it turned out the Ice Sheet was growing thicker. The researchers were Ian R. Joughin, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and Slawek Tulaczyk, a professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Taking the contrary view were distinguished research scientists Alicia Silverstone and Woody Harrelson.

About the same time, the journal Nature published the findings of scientist Peter Doran and his colleagues at the University of Illinois. Rather than using the UN's

"computer models," the researchers took actual temperature readings. It turned out temperatures in the Antarctic have been getting slightly colder—not warmer—for the last thirty years. The chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, Michael Oppenheimer, responded to the new findings by urging caution and warning that "there is simply not enough data to make a broad statement about all of Antarctica." That's interesting. Global warming devotees don't shy away from making broad statements about the temperature of the entire Planet Earth. We also didn't have to wait for more data when lunatics curtailed the use of nuclear energy in this country. The movie The China Syndrome was hard scientific evidence.

We didn't wait for more data when DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was banned on the basis of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring.

DDT was a miracle invention: tiny amounts of the chemical kill disease-carrying insects with no harm to humans, protecting them from malaria, dengue, and typhus.

American soldiers in World War II were bathed in DDT. Jews rescued from Nazi death camps were doused in it. During the debate on DDT prompted by Rachel Carson's book, J. Gordon Edwards, mountain climber, park ranger, author, and professor of biology at San Jose State University, would eat spoonfuls of DDT at lectures to prove its safety to 124

humans. Edwards lived a long and healthy life, finally dying in 2005 at the age of eighty-four while hiking. But children in America were indoctrinated with the idea that DDT

would kill all the birds, and that made them sad. So in 1972, American environmentalists working through the EPA banned one of the greatest inventions in modern history.

Millions upon millions of people in Africa had to die on the basis of a book by a woman dying of cancer who was obsessed with the idea that it was caused by modern chemicals.

Continuing its tradition of helping the poor and enslaved, in 1986 the State Department informed African nations that the United States would no longer provide aid to countries using DDT. Last year, 80,000 people in Uganda alone died of malaria, half of them children. So environmentalists are again in a panic that African nations will use DDT to save millions of lives each year. The United States and Europe have threatened to ban Ugandan imports if they use DDT to stop this scourge. Environmentalists would prefer that millions of Africans die so that white liberals may continue gazing upon rare birds. Liberals don't care about the environment. They want humans to die—or at least to smell like they have by abandoning their infernal deodorant use.

Tellingly, liberals' one example of The Republican War on Science, as one book title puts it,50 is the Christian objection to Nazi experimentation on human embryos. As with other "sciences" admired by liberals, their enthusiasm for embryonic stem-cell research is based on lies. Liberals lie about the science on stem-cell research because they warm to the idea of destroying human embryos. If they can desensitize Americans to the idea of harvesting human embryos for imaginary medical cures, liberals believe it will help advance the cause of killing the unborn. As columnist Anna Quindlen said, the "pro-choicers" were always "at a loss" when faced with moral arguments in defense of an unborn baby. But with embryonic stem-cell research, Quindlen said, the "battle of personification will assume a different and more sympathetic visage in the years to come"—taking the form of Michael J. Fox, Christopher Reeve, Ronald Reagan, and other beloved public figures for whom embryonic stem-cell researchers can promise miracle cures they are not close to producing.$'

Although there has been research on both adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells since the fifties, only adult stem-cell research has produced any cures—and lots of 'em.

Adult stem cells have been used for decades to treat dozens of diseases, including Type 1

diabetes, liver disease, and spinal cord injuries. Currently, adult stem cells are used to treat more than eighty different diseases.

Harvard medical researcher Denise Faustman has used adult stem cells to cure diabetes in mice. Other cures from adult stem cells are being tested in hundreds of clinical trials. Adult stem-cell researchers in Switzerland take a few strands of hair from burn victims and use the follicular stem cells on the tips to create entire disks of new skin, a vast improvement on ugly skin grafts. Recently, patients with dam-aged livers have been helped by injections of bone marrow adult stem cells collected not directly from their marrow (an extremely painful procedure) but simply cultivated from their blood.

By contrast, the embryonic stem-cell researchers have produced nothing. They have treated nothing. They have not even begun one human clinical trial. They've successfully treated a few rodents, but they keep running into two problems: First, the cells tend to be rejected by the immune system. Second, they tend to cause malignancies called teratomas—meaning "monster tumors."

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possible embryonic stem-cell research could find a cure for Alzheimer's disease someday only in the sense that it is possible that a biologist's toenail clippings could be used to find a cure for Alzheimer's someday. Liberals aren't demanding that tax-payer money be used for research on toenail clippings: that would not advance their governing principle, which is to always kill human life (unless the human life being killed is likely to fly a plane into American skyscrapers, in which case, it is wrong to kill it).

The only advantage embryonic stem cells once had over adult stem cells was their ability to transform into any type of cell. But fast-advancing research on adult stem cells has stripped away even that theoretical advantage. As of 2002, adult stem cells were being converted into all three types of cells the body produces during early embryonic development. And adult stem cells were already curing people!

Embryonic stem-cell researchers were in trouble. It was as if thirty years after the invention of electricity, they were still trying to get someone to fund their research on candles. Results tend to draw more research dollars than pie-in-the-sky claims to maybe, possibly someday find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, paralysis, Parkinson's disease, PMS, balding, and hemorrhoidal itch. No one is going to buy a drawing of a potential cure when somebody else is already selling the cure.

Embryonic stem-cell researchers had only one choice: Accuse anyone opposed to taxpayer funding of embryonic stem-cell research of being "anti-science." As Michael Fumento says, it was the very success of adult stem-cell research compared with the abject failure of embryonic stem-cell research that led to the all-out PR campaign:

"Savvy venture capitalists have poured their money into ASCs, leaving ESC researchers desperate to feed at the federal (or state) trough."

While adult stem-cell researchers were in their labs quietly discovering cures, embryonic stem-cell researchers were mounting a massive public relations assault that not only promised cures for every known human malady but also viciously attacked adult stem-cell research as useless. This is perhaps not surprising, since—in contrast to researchers on adult stem cells—embryonic stem-cell re-searchers are virtually never doctors. They're biologists. They don't care about healing people, they just want to be paid to push petri dishes around the lab, cut up a living human embryo, and sell it for parts like a stolen Toyota at a chop shop.

It's always the same thing with liberals. Time and again doctors are just minding their own business trying to cure people and liberal special interest groups swoop in and take all their money. The most valuable people in society are under constant attack from trial lawyers, biologists, and class-warfare Democrats.

Appropriately, the spokesman for liberal "science" was once again a rich white male Southern lawyer doing a passable impression of Miss Cleo. At an Iowa campaign stop during the 2004 presidential campaign, John Edwards promised, "We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases. . . . When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."53 Long predicted, it had finally happened: the Democrats had put Elmer Gantry on their presidential ticket. If one wanted to cure the lame, one could reasonably start with John Edwards.

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stem-cell re-searchers about the same time a South Korean woman who had been paralyzed for nineteen years began to walk again with the help of a walker—thanks to an injection of umbilical cord stem cells into the injured part of her spine.54 Long before Reeve died, two paralyzed American women with spinal cord injuries, Laura Dominguez and Susan Fajt, were treated with adult stem cells in Portugal. Both re-gained feeling and movement. Dominguez regained most upper body movement and began to walk with braces.

At a debate in New York before Reeve died, the head of a biotechnology company actually put his hand over the mouth of Reeve's de-bating partner to prevent Reeve from hearing about the stunning advances being made with adult stem-cell cures.55 Plan B was to plug up Reeve's ears with his fingers while humming loudly. They're all about the dignity of the disabled, these liberals. Until Michael Fumento wrote about Hwang Mi-soon, the South Korean woman who began to walk again thanks to adult stem cells, there was no mention of it in any document on Nexis.56

At least the embryonic stem-cell researchers have a clear financial incentive to lie about adult stem-cell research. Liberals just want to kill humans. Everyone with a doddering ninety-year-old parent is suddenly gung-ho on experimenting on human embryos—or "blastocysts," as they are affectionately known to the "scientific community." The Worst Generation is so appalled at the idea of having to take care of Mom and Dad, they're lashing out at embryos.

Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time. We don't have to hear the ghastly arguments of mothers against their own children, the travails of girls being sent away to live with their aunt for a few months, or the stories of women carrying the babies of rapists—as if that's happened more than twice in the last half century. This is just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter. There's a famous book about this practice. It's called Brave New World.

Nobody ever heard of this incredibly important research on human embryos until ten minutes ago, yet everyone makes believe he's known about the undiscovered bounty in human embryos forever, and talks about it with real moral indignation. This whole debate is a hoax designed to trick Americans into yielding ground on human experimentation.

What great advances are we to expect from experimentation on human embryos—as opposed to adult stem cells, which have already produced cures? Liberals don't know. It's just a theory. But they definitely need to start slaughtering the unborn. Why not have the government give me a lot of money so I can sit around and think. Who knows what I might come up with? I'm clever. It's possible. Give money to Ann or condemn the world to disease and pestilence! It is simply asserted that scientists need to experiment on human embryos if they are ever going to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, cancer, AIDS, Parkinson's disease, and so on. Maybe. If it's true, but no one has demonstrated that it is true. Liberals are sobbing and groaning that we don't know if the Strategic Defense Initiative will work. We shot a missile out of the sky. What's their proof?

Decades of research are called for in the case of human embryos. We don't know if this will work or not, but just to be on the safe side we'd better start chopping up as many human embryos as we can get our hands on. Whereas global warming is a closed matter in need of no further study.

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The last great advance for human experimentation in this country was the federal government's acquiescence to the scientific community's demands for money to experiment on aborted fetuses. Denouncing the "Christian right" for opposing the needs of science, Anthony Lewis of the New York Times claimed in February 2000 that the experiments were "crucial to potential cures for Parkinson's disease."57

Almost exactly a year later, the Times ran a front-page story de-scribing the results of those experiments on Parkinson's patients: Not only was there no positive effect from injecting fetal brain tissue into the recipients, but about 15 percent of the patients had nightmarish side effects. The unfortunate patients "writhe and twist, jerk their heads, fling their arms about." In the words of one scientist, "They chew constantly, their fingers go up and down, their wrists flex and distend." And the worst thing was, the scientists couldn't turn it off"

But the science that is working—adult stem-cell research—gets attacked and lied about in order to elevate the science that has produced nothing. In the August 24, 2004, New York Times, science writer Gina Kolata claimed that no one had succeeded in using adult stem cells "to treat diseases."

A short list of the successful treatments achieved by adult stem cells are these:

• Rebuilding livers wracked by otherwise irreversible cirrhosis

• Repairing spinal cord injuries by using stem cells from nasal and sinus regions

• Completely reversing Type 1 diabetes in mice using adult spleen cells

• Putting Crohn's disease into remission with the patient's own blood stem cells

• Putting lupus into remission using stem cells from the patient's bloodstream

• Treating sickle-cell anemia using stem cells from umbilical cord blood

• Repairing the heart muscles in patients with congestive heart failure using adult stem cells from bone marrow

• Repairing heart attack damage with the patient's own blood stem cells

• Restoring bone marrow in cancer patients using stem cells from umbilical cord blood

• Restoring weak heart muscles using immature skeletal muscle cells

• Putting leukemia into remission using umbilical cord blood

• Healing bone fractures with bone marrow cells

• Restoring sight in blind people using an ocular surface stem-cell transplant and a cornea transplant

• Treating urinary incontinence using stem cells from underarm muscle

• Reversing severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) with genetically modified adult stem cells

• Restoring blood circulation in legs with bone marrow stem cells59

Meanwhile, embryonic stem cells have never cured anything in any living creature.

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be. Liberals are personally offended that the AIDS virus seems to discriminate against gays. So they lie about it. They are sad that IQ is not infinitely malleable but has a genetic component. So they lie about it (and denounce people who tell the truth as racists). They are angry that men and women have different innate abilities. So they lie about it (also cry and stamp their feet).

Liberals are hostile to the very notion that things are a certain way and there generally isn't much we can do about it. They want every-thing to be fluid, flexible, up for grabs.

That is one reason they are so fixated on the idea of evolution. Darwin's theory of evolution says that organisms don't have a real essence but have "emerged" from something else and are in the process of becoming something different yet again.

The same people who angrily waved "science" in our faces to claim that embryonic stem-cell research is more valuable than adult stem-cell research, global warming causes hurricanes, cerebral palsy is caused by noncesarean deliveries, breast implants caused autoimmune diseases, DDT caused Rachel Carson's death, AIDS is easily transmitted by heterosexuals, and women and men have the same innate aptitude for math and science are now waving the crucifix of "science" to shut down debate on evolution. Intelligent design, they say, is not "science"—like the hard science behind heterosexual AIDS. Real science requires a belief that we all evolved from a common earthworm. No questions will be allowed.

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