{"id":20022,"date":"2013-04-28T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20022"},"modified":"2013-04-28T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:01:28","slug":"reason-tv-why-the-gop-should-embrace-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/28\/reason-tv-why-the-gop-should-embrace-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: Why the GOP Should Embrace Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rycKPkiVQUY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What has always alleviated our scarcity? What has always alleviated our environmental problems? Technology. What breeds technological dynamism? Economic success,&#8221; explains Joshua Jacobs, co-founder of the Conservative Future Project, a new pro-science, pro-technology organization that&#8217;s trying to get the Republican Party to embrace an open-ended future filled with driverless cars, stem-cell research, and private space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds like a tall order for a party whose leading presidential candidates in 2012 waffled on whether they believed in evolution, you&#8217;re right. But Jacobs argues forcefully that the GOP is no less anti-science than the Democrats and actually has a long history of pushing scientific and technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gillespie sat down with Jacobs in <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s D.C. studio to talk about how conservatives might stop standing athwart history yelling stop and march boldly into the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What has always alleviated our scarcity? What has always alleviated our environmental problems? Technology. What breeds technological dynamism? Economic success,&#8221; explains Joshua Jacobs, co-founder of the Conservative Future Project, a new pro-science, pro-technology organization that&#8217;s trying to get the Republican Party to embrace an open-ended future filled with driverless cars, stem-cell research, and private space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,16,15,13],"tags":[640,431,174,517,513],"class_list":["post-20022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-science","category-technology","category-usa","tag-alternativeenergy","tag-conservatism","tag-innovation","tag-republican","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}