Conservative

The COVID epidemic six years ago laid bare a national divide over the authority of science. Scientific recommendations, admittedly sometimes contradictory, were discounted and criticized, and scientists were vilified. It hasn’t gotten better. Science remains one more example of our polarized society. Upper House, the Christian Study Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, waded into the issue with a 3-lecture presentation on a Friday evening, September 11th, featuring a retired University of Wisconsin scientist who is now a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Upper House’s Lumen Center.

By Chris Rickert – Wisconsin State Journal – By day, he’s a key member of a conservative law firm known for being at the center of some of the state’s most contentious policy and culture war battles. The rest of his time, he’s a husband and the father of three sons who attend the local public schools in perhaps the most politically progressive city in the Midwest. Luke Berg, 39, first came to Madison from his hometown of Stevens Point to attend UW-Madison, where he studied philosophy, math and computer science. He’d long had his eye on the law, though……