http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1221610A spokesman for a conservative think-tank believes the Obama administration is using science to protect its political priorities, even though science may not return the favor.
According to Conn Carroll, assistant director of strategic communications for The Heritage Foundation, education is one huge example. He thinks President Obama ignored the social sciences on school choice when he took away a popular voucher program in response to his marching orders from teachers unions.
"Anything that allows for more choice and takes power away from the teachers unions, the Obama administration is going to fight against, which has nothing to do with whether or not voucher programs work," Carroll suggests. "The D.C. Opportunities Scholarship Program is the most successful program in the country at getting kids to graduate high school, and Barack Obama just ripped up the winning lottery tickets [and] the scholarships for 216 students when he came into office."
The assistant communications director also thinks the administration is ignoring science when it comes to sex education because the agenda of the left is to promote promiscuity, not abstinence. "They want the government to be telling our kids how to have sex, and there's just no social science out there that says that the government is good and has a good track record of teaching kids how to have sex," Carroll notes.
So when the administration dresses up its political proposals behind the mantle of "science," he says there is simply no scientific consensus to support those positions.
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