We notice a trend on the left to denounce scientists who disagree with a social policy objective of the left as “anti-science.” It’s a major theme on the evolution issue. Now it is true, too, on the issue of whether global warming is as big a danger as the Al Gore sorts say and what contribution human activity makes to the problem. And as a Washington Post article shows, the materialist left have decided that medical professors who promote reproductive medicine that doesn’t include abortion or test tube fertilization because of moral scruples are being denounced as “anti-science,” too.

At the same time we hear, a la Stephen Jay Gould, that science and religion are properly “non-overlapping magisteria,” that one is about facts and the other values. But it seems that whatever science can do it should do and values ignored. When someone tries to guide science with moral values he is attacked as “anti-science.”

Slowly, the ultimate claims of materialism are made plain, and scientism — the ideology — bares its teeth.

Institute Practices Reproductive Medicine — and Catholicism

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; A14