Freakouts of the Right

[GIGObuster]

One that NRA and many Republicans are acting now as if never did take place:

Right wingers and the NRA freaked out about banning lead shot for hunting season in national parks, as with many other examples from the right, the “solution” was not to look at the science of how harmful lead shot was for predators and the environment.

Teach Critical Thinking in Public Schools?

I see that Left_Hand_of_Dorkness, Chronos and others are taking care of the caricatures that one can expect from Conservapedia. Just taking one apart, one point was about misuse of statistics in discussions of gun regulation, on that one one should remember the debacle from the part of gun right proponents about lead in shots contaminating the ecosystems in the USA. Groups like the NRA even did reach for classic climate change and tobacco cancer connection denial tactics like pointing at resear…