{"id":1174,"date":"2009-01-07T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2009-01-07T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:47:56","slug":"ben-stein-thats-where-science-leads-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ben-stein-thats-where-science-leads-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stein: “…That’s where science leads you”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan’s readers pick, among their choices for Worst of 2008<\/a>, an interview excerpt from lawyer\/comedian\/commentator Ben Stein that Bradlaugh, at NRO “Corner”, accurately described as “dreck” and “shameful”<\/a> (Godwin alert<\/em>):<\/p>\n

Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers<\/a>], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed \u2026 that was horrifying beyond words, and that\u2019s where science \u2014 in my opinion, this is just an opinion \u2014 that\u2019s where science leads you.<\/p>\n

Crouch: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Stein: \u2026Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.<\/p>\n

Crouch: Good word, good word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ben Stein is a big deal in conservative circles and gets invited to headline many events, perhaps in part because of the gravitas conferred by his status as a New York Times business columnist<\/a>, though as I’ve tried on occasion to show at one of my other sites<\/a> (and as financial bloggers Felix Salmon<\/a> and Larry Ribstein<\/a> show much more frequently and brilliantly than I) Stein’s views on business and economics are not really much more solidly informed than his views on Intelligent Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> It will be difficult, but could we please avoid in the comments adding a proliferation of other Godwin violations to Stein’s own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan’s readers pick, among their choices for Worst of 2008, an interview excerpt from lawyer\/comedian\/commentator Ben Stein that Bradlaugh, at NRO “Corner”, accurately described as “dreck” and “shameful” (Godwin alert): Stein: When we just saw that man, I think … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[161,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}