If you've read one Paul Krugman column, you've read them all. They generally take this syllogistic form: (1) Can you believe a Republican said this? (2) All economists agree with me that Republicans are wrong. (3) Therefore, Republicans are stupid. He's now applied this pristine logic to Republican policy on science, noting in a recent column that Democratic science policy is based on facts, while Republicans suppress facts.
Of course, that belief is partisan nonsense, as I detail in my new book Science Left Behind. And furthermore, it would be deeply ironic if it turned out that, in writing this op-ed, Krugman also was guilty of suppressing facts.
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