Why can’t the measure of being pro-science be the question of heritability of intelligence? Or the existence of fetal pain? Or the distribution of cognitive abilities among the sexes at the extreme right tail of the bell curve

Because there is no policy implications. You want to argue Blacks are notably less intelligent then whites. Okay. So what’s the policy implication? Are you then going to argue we need to increase school hours in black areas? Are you oing to argue blacks shouldn’t vote?

Even if Fetal pain exists, so what? Abortion is a medical procedure done by the request of a woman. It’s her right to do that. Are you going to argue that because there may be fetal pain, abortion shouldn’t be done, or that it should be done under general anesthesia? What’s your policy battle?

Or cognitive skills based upon sex. So are you going to say, men can’t be interior designers because they have no color sense? Are you going to argue women shouldn’t be allowed to sit the PE because they are inherently abd at math?

There are lots of hot battles in science. Exo-planets, is pluto a planet or asteroid? Distance to gamma ray bursters. Higgs Bosons. Gravitons and gravity waves. Dark Matter. DNA structure. Environmental switches in genetic expression. Quantum Computing. Causes of cancer.

it’s only the last one that has policy battles on it.