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'Back off, man, we're scientists!" That's Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, but it might as well be David Amodio of NYU. I appeared with him on a San Francisco public-radio program, Forum. His basic argument was, "I'm a scientist, I deal with facts," while Mr. Goldberg is a pundit who peddles "fictions." This scientific principle is also known as "I'm right, you're wrong! Nyah! Nyah!"
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Amodio is the lead author of a study that received the sort of coverage you'd expect if scientists discovered that embryonic stem cells can cure breast cancer, reverse global warming, and prove that George W. Bush stole the 2000 election.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Me conservative, me stupid: or at least rigid and habit-bound, says...