We did not have a problem with our science and math standing in the world until liberals taught us that competition was wrong, that everyone could be a winner. Once it became wrong to point out to someone that they were failing we started to lose our place. This is not about anyone, conservative or liberal asking hard questions about what science believes, this is about holding people to a standard. Which goes back to the original post about politicians gaining power by making people have to be held to standard, by bailing them out of decisions that they made.
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