Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Atherton, Kelsey D. (20160808), Neil DeGrasse Tyson Doubles Down on Rationalia, Popular Science, Retrieved on 2016-09-02
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    02 SEP 2016

     Abuse of Science in Politics

    North Carolina provides a recent example of science-based policy. The science itself was a study of voting habits among the population of the state. In 2013, North Carolina passed new voting restrictions. To inform those restrictions, the legislature commissioned a study on voting habits by race, and then wrote into law a series of restrictions that specifically targeted African Americans. (Last month, a Federal Court struck down these restrictions, claiming that “the new provisions target Af...
    Folksonomies: politics science
    Folksonomies: politics science
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