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Steve Coile wrote:
>>Dr. Stebbins will explain the mission of the newly formed Scientists
>>and Engineers for America (http://sefora.org) to promote the proper
>>role of science and evidence-based debate and decision making in
>>American government and our political process. He will discuss the
>>ongoing issues with the politicizing of science in the Congress and the
>>Administration and the challenges for the upcoming Congress.
> 
> 
> American government uses democracy. Democracy is concerned with what
> the majority of people think, not what experts want people to think.
> 
> If the majority of people think the world is flat, then votes related
> to that issue will reflect what the majority believe. Further, the
> purpose of politicians is to represent the masses, not to go in their
> own direction with their own ideas and solutions. You are advocating
> pure irresponsibility and anti-democratic elitism.
> 
> The people aren't interested in your opinions, as they are able to form
> their own opinions just find from the television, newspaper, and internet
> that constitute modern culture.
> 
> If you scientists are trying to have your ideas made more important
> than the opinion of the masses, you are fighting democracy and thus
> are anti-American. You should be exiled in Guantanamo Bay.

Wow, that's profoundly uninformed.

The USA is, in fact, a Constitutional Republic of Democratic Forms.

The Constitution is no less a restraint on the whims of democracy than 
on the powers of the government.

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