Atheism and political liberalism

http://www.pointofinquiry.org/robert_price_chris_mooney_must_atheists_also_be_liberals/

Does it make sense to create a podcast discussing whether atheists must be liberals without even attempting to define “liberal” (and, by extension, “conservative”?)

To my mind, Chris Mooney is just too partisan to “c0-replace” D J Grothe as host of Point of Inquiry.  Mooney repeatedly asserts that “corporations are anti-science.”  A more tendentious claim can hardly be imagined.  All sorts of businesses use the results of scientific inquiry every day.  To describe them as “anti-science” is preposterous.

What Mooney observes is that different people will use whatever at least semi-plausible arguments available to influence the government (mainly) in all sorts of ways.  Many of these people will be speaking on behalf of businesses (and many will not), and many of these arguments will be scientifically dubious but politically influential.

This is the way politics works.  It is not some unique characteristic of  “corporations.”