*Waiting for NOGODZ's rant about Hemant posting way too soon*
I wonder if Professor Dave will make a video on it.
"we “didn’t even read the damn book.”
I don't have money to waste on luxury toilet paper.
"legitimizes the unscientific notion that men can become women (and vice versa)."
Seriously ? I thought a scientist would have the curiosity to read about new discoveries and research. They sounds like the anti evolutionists who whine about Darwin or the pseudo archeologists who create bullshit based on books written more than a century ago 🤦
Men don't become women and vice-versa. Trans people are born with the wrong genitalia and set of hormones, I don't see how is it complicated to understand and I am no geneticist.
this god mad made me. That god made me knowing I would suffer a lifetime of hatred and damnation from your hate filled jesus whores. FUCK YOU jesus whores.
This false premise that Krauss promotes, that higher education promotes "liberal values", is straight out the RWNJ handbook.
The truth has a liberal bias. Always has, always will. Conservatives hate the truth because it derails their propaganda.
Science and learning have a "liberal bias" because they are evidence based.
What passes for science among RWNJs is conspiracy nuttery as evidenced by any RW "news site" and the extreme bullshit of liars like Dennis Prager and Donvict Trump.
If you want to go and live in the mountains and live off wild berries and raccoons then fine don't get vaccinated. If you want to live in society, then you have to live by the rules of society.
What if the next pandemic is as deadly as SARS 1 and as contagious as SARS 2? With no vaccines or masks it will sweep through and kill 90%+ of the population.
I still have PTSD from Covid when Dear Leader demonized our city for political gain. It’s UNFORGIVABLE. 24/7 ambulance sirens and bodies piling up in refrigerated trucks outside my building as I live near a major hospital. I got sick from Covid before we knew what it was and right before lockdown. I was sick for over a month, but luckily recovered without needing to go to the ER.
I think I had COVID a few days before Lockdown started in the UK. I definitely had something and I have had a cough ever since.
We should have locked down as soon as Italy did. Those few weeks were very costly. An example was letting Liverpool play Atletico Madrid when Madrid was COVID central. 3,000 fans came over for that.
I’m certainly glad that your COVID didn’t continue on with the most dreaded disease ME/CFS.
Known as the invisible disease … ME/CFS is highly unlikely to kill you, but take it from me, so many of us wish that it did.
An estimated 20 million sufferers worldwide, and government research funding everywhere is virtually non-existent and yet the governments can pour billions and billions of dollars into the military every year primarily for offensive activity, not defensive activity.
Talk about military offensive activity with the christ-on-a-cross theists at the head of it all !
The number one IDIOT in the Unsettled States of America, Criminal President Trump, is still onto it, and it’s still only the beginning … Prof. Heather Cox Richardson reports the following and a lot more, "Today President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defence as the Department of War, although the 1947 abandonment of the Department of War name was not simply a matter of substituting a new name for the original one.”
Yesterday a commenter on Christian Post asserted that the Hubble telescope disproved the Big Bang more than 40 years ago. It was “big news” for about a day before it disappeared, presumably because of a leftist conspiracy.
“ the Hubble proved that radio active isotopes were NOT all made at the same moment, totally blowing the Big Bang Theory and everything associated with it out of the water. It showed there are big bangs happening all around us 24hrs a day. Without Big Bang, you lose Evolution, Carbon Dating and the billions of years. This was major headlines when it happened, for about a day.”
Just today I read about another RWNJ becoming Chancellor at Texas Tech. The same thing has already happened at University of Texas and Texas A&M. Per the Texas Tribune "Experts say regents have increasingly prioritized political savvy over academic leadership when picking university system leaders,"
… Right before the report came out, CNN asked Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) if he will believe the numbers: “Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human and fallible and make mistakes. Numbers always tend to benefit the Left.”
Krauss: The war on science are the people who don't buy my books.
Sex-pest Krauss is a piece of shit. As is every contributor to his money-grabbing tripe. There is nothing that any of those assholes can contribute to science that isn't already being said and done by real scientists who have integrity.
Racist Coyne. OMG. People transitioning is worse than climate change and the impact of unravelling health research and pushing pseudoscience onto the public? Really? WTF, Coyne.
This is a book by racist, insignificant people to trigger the right's rage-bait purchasing.
We need more books out there about human gender. Considering how human fetuses develop, it is amazing that any of us are fully male or female. In fact I am not sure that any of us are. And this is just from a physical point of view. Add the mind and it gets even more ambiguous. I have recently read about a 70 year old father of 4 months who was discovered to have a womb. A mother of 3 who developed from twin eggs that fused. Half of her body was XX and half XY.
I hate the way science fact is being turned into political footballs. Then the right wingers say we have to listen to both sides. Facts DO NOT TAKE SIDES. Those who say we are born male and female and that is it are denying the facts.
It happens when one of them realizes they can't BS away something they screwed up so they torch what little respectability they have left in a both-sides-ism Hail Mary.
Just doesn't happen that often because they're pros add BSing their garbage.
Too bad the audience he is pandering to are for the most part, illiterate, anti science morons, although their propagandists will point at the book as "proof" for their ridiculous claims.
“It said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which included the National Weather Service, needed to be dismantled because it was “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.””
So, remove all the fire alarms from your house because they are annoying when there’s a fire burning the house down.
Maybe a potent, deadly new variant will catch him and his cronies unawares and take him out. After all, Dr.* Brainworms & Co. have dismantled most of the mechanisms that were in place to monitor such developments.
Don't kid yourself. Trump will get platinum-standard care, regardless, because President. Anyone else can either do their own groundwork and work for their own protection or take their chances.
Hmm, just like the fucking pope when he got sick. No thoughts and prayers, the scumbag went to a hospital (where HUMAN based MEDICAL SCIENCE was used) to seek care. Didn’t have enough trust in his imaginary friend to cure him, not to mention that by going to the hospital the pope was interfering with goggybitch’s plan for him. It is as if goddybitch doesn’t exist.
I’m hoping his health is so bad now that it wouldn’t be able to withstand another bout of COVID, no matter what stellar medical care he has access to. Halting vaccine research and manufacture is not a good idea under any circumstances, and if a new lethal variant did emerge, it would certainly be satisfying to watch it bite him in the ass.
Not lost, just it won’t be an American scientists that makes the discoveries. Of course the non American scientists that do make the discoveries will be ignored by this regime because they weren’t discovered by an American scientist.
I was thinking about what Hemant said about long-term experiments having to be terminated, and how they could not simply be “unpaused” when things got better.
Echoing Troublesh00ter... considering that the effort is being led by a guy who literally thinks that not testing for COVID would make the virus stop infecting people, it surprises me not at all that the MAGAtverse believes eliminating weather forecasting will stop bad weather from happening.
It surprises me even less that a bunch of elderly white cis male scientific has-beens, and Jordan Peterson, would regard that line of thought to be less of a problem for society than their own wrinkled asses having to give women and minorities a turn in the spotlight.
Yes and no. Yes because if those idiots follow their own advices they probably become exterminated. Hurray. And no because som relatives or friends of them are not that stupid and don't deserve to die.
I read where the Trump Maladmin wants satellites that will track “weather” information but not “climate” information. Meteorologists said that 1) there’s no difference and 2) anything you do to reduce “climate” information will result in poorer “weather” forecasting.
In psychological terms, I do not think this is very different than blaming rape victims for getting raped. I cannot fathom why the failure to conform to right-wing talking points is somehow the fault of science. Science can prove what it has to say, and the anti-science crowd can't. They derive their opinions from magical thinking and special pleading, none of which can be demonstrated to be true. Yet, somehow, they need to be deferred to?
Brian Cox and Neil DeGrasse Tyson have both said that 'the great thing about Science is that it is true whether you believe in it or not.' I am coming more and more to believe it will take a National Separation and Divorce to settle this. I don't want their worldview shoved down my throat and they surely won't accommodate mine.
Ugh, remember when we admired Richard Dawkins? I do. I admired J.K.Rowling once too. I don't just hate them both now; I also feel betrayed as hell. And yeah, I don't have much to add here otherwise. This is just completely pathetic, self-serving, cowardly bullshit. The trans community isn't waging a war on ANYTHING. They just want to be left the hell alone. Pretending that people being trans is against established science is lying, plain and simple.
You would have thought an evolutionary biologist would know a bit more about human gender issues.
And 💯 on the trans community. At the basic level, it is just individuals who wanted to be treated with respect. The Christian Nationalists are fighting a one sided war. They are the aggressors and they act like the victims. No wonder they sided with Russia over their invasion.
He does know more. He's just realized that he can keep his name in the news, and his books moving copy, by hopping on the culture war bandwagon of the day. He's not stupid- just a callous, cynical old bigot who doesn't care what harm he causes as long as he stays famous, and therefore, 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩.
Why fight the actual enemy when there's a handy scapegoat to direct all their pent-up rage and frustration at? That would be way too hard! Many of my friends are trans and literally all they want is to be able to have a job and a home, friends and family, and be shown the same respect as everybody else. Like I got mistaken for a boy a lot when I was a kid, and when I corrected people they would say sorry and not do it again. So how is it any different when the same thing happens to a trans person, or any harder to say sorry and then not do it again? Trick question - it ain't.
Anti trans wouldn't recognize a trans woman from a cis one. I know I can't, I know a trans woman, if she hadn't been in a newspaper article about her mariage with her girlfriend, I wouldn't have know she was assigned male at birth.
She smartly used a loophole in French law, since at that time SSM was not legal and she was still considered a man because she refused to give proof she had a corrective surgery*, she could marry another woman, meaning they are the first SSM, even if not recognized as such legally.
*The law changed and this invasion of privacy is now illegal.
Yeah, the "logical" conclusion to all this is that anyone who doesn't look what someone arbitrarily decides is suitably "masculine" or "feminine" enough is going to get ogled and photographed and harassed and physically assaulted merely for trying to go to the damn bathroom. It's ridiculous as well as horrible.
dawkins doesn't only show he doesn't care about what science says but also history. Some people who were qualified as "eunuchs" by previous generations of historians may have been on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
It's times like these when people show their true colours. For some, they show us loud and clear that they care more about money than they do about truth, science, or basic human decency. Unfortunately for them, once these times have thankfully passed, the rest of us won't forget who resisted and who collaborated.
I hate to say it, but it's pretty clear that Lawrence Krauss has completely jumped the shark. His attack on woke science is about a sensible as RFKJr's dismissal of mRNA vaccines.
One real tragedy in the midst of all of this is the blunt fact that it will take far longer to correct the problem then it did to create it. Negative entropy is always harder to create than positive entropy, or in simpler words it's a lot easier to destroy than it is to create. Between the scientific and sociological attacks being fostered and encouraged by Donald Trump, an enormous amount of damage is being done to this country, and the time and resources to normalize things will be considerable and the effort to do so difficult.
Anybody who knows any real, young, serious, scientists knows hard science grad students and young faculty are enriched with queer people, people of color, and progressive people. This is a bunch of old fucks yelling and their own mortality.
Somehow I just cannot bring myself to call Lancet, NEJM, Annals of Internal Medicine, Science , Nature or any other highly regarded Journals 'Partisan Lobby Groups.' Hemant touched on this - the political reichwing has opened Pandora's Box and let loose the evil spirits of Authoritarianism. Their (corrupted) version of Science starts out with a conclusion and then seeks 'evidence' to justify it - pretty much the inverse of real Scientific Method. They seek to take all the bothersome (to them) square pegs in society and hammer them into their neatly arranged simplistic little round holes. This may be a Djinn which cannot be crammed back in his bottle...
I haven't and won't read this book. So taking this evaluation at face value, what about science changed because we had an election. What about the social contract changed because we had an election. Why would I change my mind about right and wrong ways to think about the world because we had an election.
Oh goodie, here's the world's dumbest collection of smart people, once again, to tell us all about how 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥! they all are... by publishing a whole-ass book about how they're not being allowed to speak their minds.
I'm so sorry to hear these guys have been stricken deaf and blind. How unfortunate for them. /s
Bigotry in science fields is ridiculous and disingenuous; being a scientist and whining about 'woke' says a lot about the character of the whiner. If your 'scientific inquiry' can't handle that not every scientist is a healthy, white, male, cisgender heterosexual, then you're not practicing good science, you're manipulating facts to fit your narrative. Time to build the bridge and get over yourself.
The pecking order of these "alpha males" is interesting at their different levels of society. The lower level ones drive big and/or loud vehicles around where I live, to compensate for their fragility. My husband says they are compensating for their physical or intellectual shortcomings. I call it the Bat signal for micropeens.
Krauss and these others are higher up in the pecking order and think they can use their scientific knowledge to justify their bigotry and misogyny. However their opinions are based on fear and insecurity, not science.
American culture with its glorification of violence and patriarchy has produced the real snowflakes: right wingers that are afraid of strong women, gay men, trans people, books and drag queens.
Well Trump used Russia to get elected. We all knew this was true and yet people voted for him again. Luckily a lot of non voters came out and voted for Biden.
Then Trump tried to overturn that election and staged a failed insurrection. We all knew this and yet people voted for him again. This time the non voters didn't come out to vote for Harris.
Aggree. Decades of political, and business and civil decline and corruption created the environment for a Trump type which thinkers and observers said would eventually come about. What many didn't predict was how inept and unethical this type would be and that people would still vote for him in the tens of millions. Remember the puppets and muppets Bush Jnr and Reagan that the moral vacuum elites installed to get their way?
One does feel for US citizens, and for that matter the world who are coming to terms with all this, because they contend with political food deserts.
I mentioned yesterday about how the Christians are incurious. That itself is a tragedy. It when scientists and scholars become incurious, as these intellectually stunted supposed giants of science seem to be, that is a catastrophic disaster of epic proportions. These people are no longer credible experts, trusting folks who are not educated in science or medicine, known for having brain worms and mold poisoning, over their actual peers or betters with an abundance of melanin means that, even if they had the knowledge to gain notoriety honestly, are no longer trustworthy sources and should be treated as the internet trolls they are.
Christians and especially fundamentalist Christians can't afford to be curious. Culturing curiosity or inquisitiveness could lead to an examination of WHAT they believe and WHY.
And THAT tends to lead to questions they almost certainly won't like the answers to.
Also, they should be willing to admit that their opinions outside of their specialty are a LOT more subject to question, since their degree of being informed may not be the best. Krauss may be a competent physicist, but WTF does he know about gender studies?
It's because of curiosity that science exists in the first place, seeking information and answers. Because of this, new information and discoveries come to light all the time, and science grows and evolves.
These dickwads don't like change, and they don't like the new information that is coming to light, especially the expanded understanding of sexuality and the impact conservative policies are having on our environment. They are incurious conservative dipshits at heart who don't like how that information conflicts with their politics and worldview.
They also seem to believe that their "science" should be the exclusive oyster of conservative white men like themselves. I can't think of any other reason why they would see reaching out to underrepresented minorities with scholarships is a threat. Real scientists would applaud bringing in new talent. But no, with these coneheads, it's "get rid of all these progressive liberals that are ruining things for us, and let us run the show."
People like this are not in science for the joy and wonder of new discoveries or the quiet satisfaction of performing needed work to gather useful problem-solving data or make life better for their fellow humans. They are probably in it primarily to chase the fame and glory of being "that" scientist who makes a discovery that gets talked about in history books. The last thing they want to see is a brilliant, well-respected Black scientist making that discovery. What a blow that would be to their fragile, brittle egos. And they certainly don't want to hear anything that challenges their preconceived notions about sex, gender, and planet-killing fossil fuels.
I once had a science teacher tell me that science is a growing, living thing, and if one wanted to go into a scientific field, one needed to be prepared to discard even favorite theories if new data disproved them, to always expect the unexpected no matter how uncomfortable that is, and to always test and re-test everything.
I loved science as a kid. I couldn't get enough of it. To see what is happening to it now breaks my heart.
A couple of years ago, I saw a documentary about Alexander the Great. Half of the historians* in it were women, and between one quarter and a third were non white.
*Waiting for NOGODZ's rant about Hemant posting way too soon*
I wonder if Professor Dave will make a video on it.
"we “didn’t even read the damn book.”
I don't have money to waste on luxury toilet paper.
"legitimizes the unscientific notion that men can become women (and vice versa)."
Seriously ? I thought a scientist would have the curiosity to read about new discoveries and research. They sounds like the anti evolutionists who whine about Darwin or the pseudo archeologists who create bullshit based on books written more than a century ago 🤦
Men don't become women and vice-versa. Trans people are born with the wrong genitalia and set of hormones, I don't see how is it complicated to understand and I am no geneticist.
Edit : I can't believe I commented before Oraxx 🤣
LOL I'm an early riser, and I keep an eye out for Hemant's post. One of the few things I actually look forward to any more.
He posted at 12:40 pm 😁
Hemant posted this article at 3:40 AM, my time. Guess what I was doing?
Heartless bastard. ;)
Dreaming about your next time in your favorite restaurant ?
I’m so hopelessly behind on this article I may have to put off dinner just to try to catch up.
I see Graf made an ass of himself again.
Yep. It doesn't take that much of an effort to have him shows his true colors.
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This false premise that Krauss promotes, that higher education promotes "liberal values", is straight out the RWNJ handbook.
The truth has a liberal bias. Always has, always will. Conservatives hate the truth because it derails their propaganda.
Science and learning have a "liberal bias" because they are evidence based.
What passes for science among RWNJs is conspiracy nuttery as evidenced by any RW "news site" and the extreme bullshit of liars like Dennis Prager and Donvict Trump.
Exhibit A that the so-called left-wing brainwashing exist only in their minds is denazillon in Florida.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJvhE_Cc_G/?igsh=bWthZjgxd3dzejE3
'Diseases don't care about your choices'.
If you want to go and live in the mountains and live off wild berries and raccoons then fine don't get vaccinated. If you want to live in society, then you have to live by the rules of society.
What if the next pandemic is as deadly as SARS 1 and as contagious as SARS 2? With no vaccines or masks it will sweep through and kill 90%+ of the population.
I still have PTSD from Covid when Dear Leader demonized our city for political gain. It’s UNFORGIVABLE. 24/7 ambulance sirens and bodies piling up in refrigerated trucks outside my building as I live near a major hospital. I got sick from Covid before we knew what it was and right before lockdown. I was sick for over a month, but luckily recovered without needing to go to the ER.
I think I had COVID a few days before Lockdown started in the UK. I definitely had something and I have had a cough ever since.
We should have locked down as soon as Italy did. Those few weeks were very costly. An example was letting Liverpool play Atletico Madrid when Madrid was COVID central. 3,000 fans came over for that.
I’m certainly glad that your COVID didn’t continue on with the most dreaded disease ME/CFS.
Known as the invisible disease … ME/CFS is highly unlikely to kill you, but take it from me, so many of us wish that it did.
An estimated 20 million sufferers worldwide, and government research funding everywhere is virtually non-existent and yet the governments can pour billions and billions of dollars into the military every year primarily for offensive activity, not defensive activity.
Talk about military offensive activity with the christ-on-a-cross theists at the head of it all !
The number one IDIOT in the Unsettled States of America, Criminal President Trump, is still onto it, and it’s still only the beginning … Prof. Heather Cox Richardson reports the following and a lot more, "Today President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defence as the Department of War, although the 1947 abandonment of the Department of War name was not simply a matter of substituting a new name for the original one.”
𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖞 𝖍𝖆𝖘 𝖆 𝖑𝖎𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖑 𝖇𝖎𝖆𝖘.
Yesterday a commenter on Christian Post asserted that the Hubble telescope disproved the Big Bang more than 40 years ago. It was “big news” for about a day before it disappeared, presumably because of a leftist conspiracy.
Facepalm.
He was also a YEC.
That was evident from the billions of years comment. Means none of what he wrote is even worth disproving.
Here is his explanation:
“ the Hubble proved that radio active isotopes were NOT all made at the same moment, totally blowing the Big Bang Theory and everything associated with it out of the water. It showed there are big bangs happening all around us 24hrs a day. Without Big Bang, you lose Evolution, Carbon Dating and the billions of years. This was major headlines when it happened, for about a day.”
They should go to the end of their non reasoning, if all science is wrong then they can test the theory of gravity by jumping from a cliff🤦
Good idea. I can help them testing it by push them off that cliff.
Yes, lend a hand and let science do the rest. :D
I love the way you think!
That kind of shitupidity is what I reserve this clip for:
https://youtu.be/74MKKhrGoM0
Just today I read about another RWNJ becoming Chancellor at Texas Tech. The same thing has already happened at University of Texas and Texas A&M. Per the Texas Tribune "Experts say regents have increasingly prioritized political savvy over academic leadership when picking university system leaders,"
And by “savvy” they mean not pissing off the RWNJ that control the money.
They are doing the same here in floriduh.
RWNJ ? …
sorry, Ich nicht verstehen in Australia
Is that Real World Nonsence Jesus ?
Right Wing Nut Job
Right wing something.
Racing Wildwood New Jersey
Fais comme si j'avais compris 😅
I wanted to ask that question. Ich bin aus Norwegen.
Addendum:
… Right before the report came out, CNN asked Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) if he will believe the numbers: “Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human and fallible and make mistakes. Numbers always tend to benefit the Left.”
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-200-9525
Hahahahaha.
Krauss: The war on science are the people who don't buy my books.
Sex-pest Krauss is a piece of shit. As is every contributor to his money-grabbing tripe. There is nothing that any of those assholes can contribute to science that isn't already being said and done by real scientists who have integrity.
Racist Coyne. OMG. People transitioning is worse than climate change and the impact of unravelling health research and pushing pseudoscience onto the public? Really? WTF, Coyne.
This is a book by racist, insignificant people to trigger the right's rage-bait purchasing.
We need more books out there about human gender. Considering how human fetuses develop, it is amazing that any of us are fully male or female. In fact I am not sure that any of us are. And this is just from a physical point of view. Add the mind and it gets even more ambiguous. I have recently read about a 70 year old father of 4 months who was discovered to have a womb. A mother of 3 who developed from twin eggs that fused. Half of her body was XX and half XY.
I hate the way science fact is being turned into political footballs. Then the right wingers say we have to listen to both sides. Facts DO NOT TAKE SIDES. Those who say we are born male and female and that is it are denying the facts.
"the right wingers say we have to listen to both sides"
When did that happen?
Every time I hear that "both sides" crap, I find that I HAVE to cite the following:
𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.
-- Edward R. Murrow
Especially when one side is spouting demonstrable bullshit, while the other side sticks to facts.
It happens when one of them realizes they can't BS away something they screwed up so they torch what little respectability they have left in a both-sides-ism Hail Mary.
Just doesn't happen that often because they're pros add BSing their garbage.
Only when there is one side and they are not on it.
But it is lets listen to both sides and then decide we are right.
Many years ago, i read about a guy who was obviously really bored one day and calculated how many cell divisions had to happen to produce a baby.
Woah that's fascinating! I would have loved to have learned this stuff in school as a kid.
Too bad the audience he is pandering to are for the most part, illiterate, anti science morons, although their propagandists will point at the book as "proof" for their ridiculous claims.
The wider book purchasing audience are "libruls."
“It said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which included the National Weather Service, needed to be dismantled because it was “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.””
So, remove all the fire alarms from your house because they are annoying when there’s a fire burning the house down.
Good strategy.
Hey, if we don't survey on how many people are getting COVID-19, the infection numbers will go down! What could POSSIBLY go wrong? 🤪
Drumpster not dying from it.
One can only hope...
Maybe a potent, deadly new variant will catch him and his cronies unawares and take him out. After all, Dr.* Brainworms & Co. have dismantled most of the mechanisms that were in place to monitor such developments.
* /s. Big time.
Don't kid yourself. Trump will get platinum-standard care, regardless, because President. Anyone else can either do their own groundwork and work for their own protection or take their chances.
Swell system, eh?
Hmm, just like the fucking pope when he got sick. No thoughts and prayers, the scumbag went to a hospital (where HUMAN based MEDICAL SCIENCE was used) to seek care. Didn’t have enough trust in his imaginary friend to cure him, not to mention that by going to the hospital the pope was interfering with goggybitch’s plan for him. It is as if goddybitch doesn’t exist.
I’m hoping his health is so bad now that it wouldn’t be able to withstand another bout of COVID, no matter what stellar medical care he has access to. Halting vaccine research and manufacture is not a good idea under any circumstances, and if a new lethal variant did emerge, it would certainly be satisfying to watch it bite him in the ass.
If only he had croaked when he caught it during his first term.
😢 Heartbreaking. All the new information that was probably on the brink of being discovered, now lost. Fuck all.
Not lost, just it won’t be an American scientists that makes the discoveries. Of course the non American scientists that do make the discoveries will be ignored by this regime because they weren’t discovered by an American scientist.
I was thinking about what Hemant said about long-term experiments having to be terminated, and how they could not simply be “unpaused” when things got better.
Perhaps he was talking about experiments dealing with virus, germs or with nuclear energy, any experiments that requires constant monitoring!
Echoing Troublesh00ter... considering that the effort is being led by a guy who literally thinks that not testing for COVID would make the virus stop infecting people, it surprises me not at all that the MAGAtverse believes eliminating weather forecasting will stop bad weather from happening.
It surprises me even less that a bunch of elderly white cis male scientific has-beens, and Jordan Peterson, would regard that line of thought to be less of a problem for society than their own wrinkled asses having to give women and minorities a turn in the spotlight.
THIS!!!
Yes and no. Yes because if those idiots follow their own advices they probably become exterminated. Hurray. And no because som relatives or friends of them are not that stupid and don't deserve to die.
I read where the Trump Maladmin wants satellites that will track “weather” information but not “climate” information. Meteorologists said that 1) there’s no difference and 2) anything you do to reduce “climate” information will result in poorer “weather” forecasting.
In psychological terms, I do not think this is very different than blaming rape victims for getting raped. I cannot fathom why the failure to conform to right-wing talking points is somehow the fault of science. Science can prove what it has to say, and the anti-science crowd can't. They derive their opinions from magical thinking and special pleading, none of which can be demonstrated to be true. Yet, somehow, they need to be deferred to?
Brian Cox and Neil DeGrasse Tyson have both said that 'the great thing about Science is that it is true whether you believe in it or not.' I am coming more and more to believe it will take a National Separation and Divorce to settle this. I don't want their worldview shoved down my throat and they surely won't accommodate mine.
I've listened to Tyson's podcast a number of times. He's not only a brilliant scientist, he has a great sense of humor.
Let the red states have America. Then the sane half of the country can leave and make a progressive country.
The red states will end up disease ridden and with no expertise to stop it. Third world status could even follow.
I believe this is very likely to happen in one way or another.
A couple of years ago I would have said that is conspiracy theory level thinking. Now it seems almost inevitable.
As the attacks on science continue here in the U.S., Xi Jinping clasps his hands and smiles. He is defeating his biggest adversary with firing a shot.
You misspelled "without".
Indeed I did. Thank you for correcting that. Next time I will be fully awake before posting any comments!
We already have new health coalitions forming among both western and eastern state governments.
What could possibly go wrong with RFK Jr. in charge of the nation's health?
Not much. UnUSA has so many sensible politicians, I am sure some of his decisions will be stopped. /s
Ugh, remember when we admired Richard Dawkins? I do. I admired J.K.Rowling once too. I don't just hate them both now; I also feel betrayed as hell. And yeah, I don't have much to add here otherwise. This is just completely pathetic, self-serving, cowardly bullshit. The trans community isn't waging a war on ANYTHING. They just want to be left the hell alone. Pretending that people being trans is against established science is lying, plain and simple.
You would have thought an evolutionary biologist would know a bit more about human gender issues.
And 💯 on the trans community. At the basic level, it is just individuals who wanted to be treated with respect. The Christian Nationalists are fighting a one sided war. They are the aggressors and they act like the victims. No wonder they sided with Russia over their invasion.
He does know more. He's just realized that he can keep his name in the news, and his books moving copy, by hopping on the culture war bandwagon of the day. He's not stupid- just a callous, cynical old bigot who doesn't care what harm he causes as long as he stays famous, and therefore, 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩.
Why fight the actual enemy when there's a handy scapegoat to direct all their pent-up rage and frustration at? That would be way too hard! Many of my friends are trans and literally all they want is to be able to have a job and a home, friends and family, and be shown the same respect as everybody else. Like I got mistaken for a boy a lot when I was a kid, and when I corrected people they would say sorry and not do it again. So how is it any different when the same thing happens to a trans person, or any harder to say sorry and then not do it again? Trick question - it ain't.
Anti trans wouldn't recognize a trans woman from a cis one. I know I can't, I know a trans woman, if she hadn't been in a newspaper article about her mariage with her girlfriend, I wouldn't have know she was assigned male at birth.
She smartly used a loophole in French law, since at that time SSM was not legal and she was still considered a man because she refused to give proof she had a corrective surgery*, she could marry another woman, meaning they are the first SSM, even if not recognized as such legally.
*The law changed and this invasion of privacy is now illegal.
Yeah, the "logical" conclusion to all this is that anyone who doesn't look what someone arbitrarily decides is suitably "masculine" or "feminine" enough is going to get ogled and photographed and harassed and physically assaulted merely for trying to go to the damn bathroom. It's ridiculous as well as horrible.
Sometimes it is obvious.
I don't see the obvious then 😁
dawkins doesn't only show he doesn't care about what science says but also history. Some people who were qualified as "eunuchs" by previous generations of historians may have been on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
Dawkins … WTF !
Ah, but it's such a very 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 sort of lying, with fascism on the ascendant.
It's times like these when people show their true colours. For some, they show us loud and clear that they care more about money than they do about truth, science, or basic human decency. Unfortunately for them, once these times have thankfully passed, the rest of us won't forget who resisted and who collaborated.
I hate to say it, but it's pretty clear that Lawrence Krauss has completely jumped the shark. His attack on woke science is about a sensible as RFKJr's dismissal of mRNA vaccines.
One real tragedy in the midst of all of this is the blunt fact that it will take far longer to correct the problem then it did to create it. Negative entropy is always harder to create than positive entropy, or in simpler words it's a lot easier to destroy than it is to create. Between the scientific and sociological attacks being fostered and encouraged by Donald Trump, an enormous amount of damage is being done to this country, and the time and resources to normalize things will be considerable and the effort to do so difficult.
Remember, RFK Jr. was once a Democrat. Somebody trans'd him into a MAGA!
https://youtu.be/GFnO75ZJ9ME?si=CRT7bMKbtN5K3U9D
The difference is, all of these people don’t believe in this world. They are actively destroying it.
Imagine feeling so threatened by women’s equality or a gender spectrum that you missed the part where we are slipping back into The Dark Ages?
It's fragile masculinity. They are terrified of anything they can't understand and wholly insecure.
They want to go back to when men were real men and women were property.
And anyone else can be called insane and locked away.
When men were men and the 🐑 were nervous.
They don't care about that as long as it brings on the End Times and speeds up the Rapture.
"The Rapture." Funny how those words still give me the willies, even after all these years.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/95b9067540979e4d91fad662b064373351cb3cc7a5190da3f9e6accc37aedbbc.jpg
https://youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g
Right! The Rapture. How could I forget?
I wish I could forget. I spent my childhood years terrified that it was going to happen any second, and I would be left behind.
I’m so sorry. No child should have to feel that way
Thank you 🩵. I appreciate that, believe me.
It is piss poor fan fiction.
Anybody who knows any real, young, serious, scientists knows hard science grad students and young faculty are enriched with queer people, people of color, and progressive people. This is a bunch of old fucks yelling and their own mortality.
Somehow I just cannot bring myself to call Lancet, NEJM, Annals of Internal Medicine, Science , Nature or any other highly regarded Journals 'Partisan Lobby Groups.' Hemant touched on this - the political reichwing has opened Pandora's Box and let loose the evil spirits of Authoritarianism. Their (corrupted) version of Science starts out with a conclusion and then seeks 'evidence' to justify it - pretty much the inverse of real Scientific Method. They seek to take all the bothersome (to them) square pegs in society and hammer them into their neatly arranged simplistic little round holes. This may be a Djinn which cannot be crammed back in his bottle...
Still not drag queens.
I haven't and won't read this book. So taking this evaluation at face value, what about science changed because we had an election. What about the social contract changed because we had an election. Why would I change my mind about right and wrong ways to think about the world because we had an election.
That's my whataboutism and I am sticking to it.
“What about science changed because we had an” erection.
Sorry … could not resist. :-)
Well that's just science. Everybody knows that.
Changes the meaning of "Blinded Me With Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
"Good heavens Miss Yakamoto, you're beautiful."
😂
Oh goodie, here's the world's dumbest collection of smart people, once again, to tell us all about how 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥! they all are... by publishing a whole-ass book about how they're not being allowed to speak their minds.
https://amptoons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/silenced.png
Parody is fucking dead.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.ufcIFowlw8J4p4W3XJeV8AHaHn%3Fpid%3DApi%26ucfimg%3D1&f=1&ipt=d7042ef5254c75cac5f3d0e7340a1e5fbee2b60610feeee48ec127320b832ca3&ipo=images
"𝑊𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠."
I'm so sorry to hear these guys have been stricken deaf and blind. How unfortunate for them. /s
Bigotry in science fields is ridiculous and disingenuous; being a scientist and whining about 'woke' says a lot about the character of the whiner. If your 'scientific inquiry' can't handle that not every scientist is a healthy, white, male, cisgender heterosexual, then you're not practicing good science, you're manipulating facts to fit your narrative. Time to build the bridge and get over yourself.
"𝑊𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠."
That part would be the red flag for anyone with critical thinking skills.
The pecking order of these "alpha males" is interesting at their different levels of society. The lower level ones drive big and/or loud vehicles around where I live, to compensate for their fragility. My husband says they are compensating for their physical or intellectual shortcomings. I call it the Bat signal for micropeens.
Krauss and these others are higher up in the pecking order and think they can use their scientific knowledge to justify their bigotry and misogyny. However their opinions are based on fear and insecurity, not science.
American culture with its glorification of violence and patriarchy has produced the real snowflakes: right wingers that are afraid of strong women, gay men, trans people, books and drag queens.
"the Bat signal for micropeens."
🤣🤣🤣
(stealing this!)
Definitely taking that! I am also taking the silverware and the all the snacks too!
I leave the sofa for couchfucking Vance to have his way with!
Awwww, what did that poor sofa ever do to you?
IKR? So good!
And POCs.
TY, forgot that one and probably a lot more.
Krause: wE dIdN't nO wUt TrUmP wOoD dO!!!!!
Bitch, please. I have a BFA in Illustration from an art college and I fucking saw most of that shit coming, Mr. "Science" Man.
Never mind the fact that Trump TOLD US what he would do ... and then HE DID IT. Anyone wanting to feign surprise isn't using their gray matter.
shhhh... that's the secret of my art school smarts.
Well Trump used Russia to get elected. We all knew this was true and yet people voted for him again. Luckily a lot of non voters came out and voted for Biden.
Then Trump tried to overturn that election and staged a failed insurrection. We all knew this and yet people voted for him again. This time the non voters didn't come out to vote for Harris.
Aggree. Decades of political, and business and civil decline and corruption created the environment for a Trump type which thinkers and observers said would eventually come about. What many didn't predict was how inept and unethical this type would be and that people would still vote for him in the tens of millions. Remember the puppets and muppets Bush Jnr and Reagan that the moral vacuum elites installed to get their way?
One does feel for US citizens, and for that matter the world who are coming to terms with all this, because they contend with political food deserts.
Told us, 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭- he published the entire step-by-step playbook!
I mentioned yesterday about how the Christians are incurious. That itself is a tragedy. It when scientists and scholars become incurious, as these intellectually stunted supposed giants of science seem to be, that is a catastrophic disaster of epic proportions. These people are no longer credible experts, trusting folks who are not educated in science or medicine, known for having brain worms and mold poisoning, over their actual peers or betters with an abundance of melanin means that, even if they had the knowledge to gain notoriety honestly, are no longer trustworthy sources and should be treated as the internet trolls they are.
They’re hacks. That’s all they are now.
Christians and especially fundamentalist Christians can't afford to be curious. Culturing curiosity or inquisitiveness could lead to an examination of WHAT they believe and WHY.
And THAT tends to lead to questions they almost certainly won't like the answers to.
The heart of the issue.
Real Christians aren't curious about anything other than when Jesus will give them their proverbial blowjob.
But these scientists cannot afford to not be curious, and that’s why they are morally bankrupting themselves.
Also, they should be willing to admit that their opinions outside of their specialty are a LOT more subject to question, since their degree of being informed may not be the best. Krauss may be a competent physicist, but WTF does he know about gender studies?
It's because of curiosity that science exists in the first place, seeking information and answers. Because of this, new information and discoveries come to light all the time, and science grows and evolves.
These dickwads don't like change, and they don't like the new information that is coming to light, especially the expanded understanding of sexuality and the impact conservative policies are having on our environment. They are incurious conservative dipshits at heart who don't like how that information conflicts with their politics and worldview.
They also seem to believe that their "science" should be the exclusive oyster of conservative white men like themselves. I can't think of any other reason why they would see reaching out to underrepresented minorities with scholarships is a threat. Real scientists would applaud bringing in new talent. But no, with these coneheads, it's "get rid of all these progressive liberals that are ruining things for us, and let us run the show."
People like this are not in science for the joy and wonder of new discoveries or the quiet satisfaction of performing needed work to gather useful problem-solving data or make life better for their fellow humans. They are probably in it primarily to chase the fame and glory of being "that" scientist who makes a discovery that gets talked about in history books. The last thing they want to see is a brilliant, well-respected Black scientist making that discovery. What a blow that would be to their fragile, brittle egos. And they certainly don't want to hear anything that challenges their preconceived notions about sex, gender, and planet-killing fossil fuels.
I once had a science teacher tell me that science is a growing, living thing, and if one wanted to go into a scientific field, one needed to be prepared to discard even favorite theories if new data disproved them, to always expect the unexpected no matter how uncomfortable that is, and to always test and re-test everything.
I loved science as a kid. I couldn't get enough of it. To see what is happening to it now breaks my heart.
A couple of years ago, I saw a documentary about Alexander the Great. Half of the historians* in it were women, and between one quarter and a third were non white.
*At least 6 or 7.
I’m betting it wasn’t produced in the US?
I thinking maybe the BBC, the documentaries cover a wide range and have various presenters as well!
No idea. Maybe I can find it online.
I think it's these ones
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt21105364/episodes/
Thanks! I'll be watching them soon, and I'm sure my husband will too. He's quite a fan of history.
The 6 or 7 historians may be across the 3 documentaries, not the one on Alexander.