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According to our dear friends over at Wired, we are losing the war on science. This interview with Shawn Otto, author of The War on Science [no-script hostile] ranges from the American presidential election to Albert Einstein:
His new book The War on Science explores ways that citizens can fight back against a creeping tide of anti-science nonsense promulgated by everyone from postmodern academics to greedy oil companies to nature-loving hippies. An important step is to make journalists understand that science and opinion should not be given equal weight.
"The purpose of a free press in a democracy is to hold the powerful accountable to the evidence," Otto says. "Journalists have really lost sight of that purpose, of their entire reason for being."
Fair enough. But things have gotten worse?
He fears that the war on science will only intensify once Donald Trump takes office in January. "I'm very concerned, as is the rest of the global scientific community," Otto says.
As a personal aside, I find it unlikely that the public, those who executed Socrates, burned the Library of Alexandria, and imprisoned Antoinio Gramsci, could fall for such a diaphanous fraud as the Republican attack on science! People back then were truly and profoundly stupid. But people today have the internet, and facebook, and a total misunderstanding of science, politics, ethics, and math. So, this will not end well? Help me, Soylentils, give me hope.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @12:05AM
Einstein did not build the bomb. He signed a letter, against his pacificts principles, and he later regretted it.
So the characters are the ignorant, and that scene is not a mischaracterization but a damn lie. As false as saying Hitler was black or some other nonsense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @12:08AM
Meh, Hitler was irrelevant after the UN un-Nazied the world.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 09 2016, @01:04AM
The UN is all for Nazifying the world, just with a different kind of Nazi - Islamic immigrants.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday December 09 2016, @03:39AM
The UN isn't for or against anything, its member states have their own agendas. The fact that it is headquartered in New York and has a few permanent members of the security council does give some sense of who carries more weight in its decisions, but, all in all, its decisions do reflect the will of its member states.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:03PM
The UN was created to install the New World Order. It is against nationalism. They allow you to call yourself 'nationalist' as long as it is functionally the same as 'globalist'. You get immigrants all over the place who are forced out of their homes by Khazar vermin.
The Khazars then use the MSM to blame someone and not report facts when needed. They are good at passing blame. X is to blame for Y. You are to blame for Z. We (excluding Khazars) are destroying the world, etc. All of that is nonsense. You and I aren't destroying the world, the Khazars are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @05:20PM
Ah [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @06:10PM
Ahh, jew created wikipedia page to show how much he cares about jews.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday December 09 2016, @06:14PM
Oh, what a sad state of affairs when Anonymous Solylentils are arguing with characters in the movie "Idiocracy" as if "Idiocracy" was not fiction . . . Oh, crap! Be right back, I have to run down the street to see what the name of the burger place is. How long was I asleep?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @11:49PM
Is it still Fuddruckers?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 15 2016, @12:01AM
So far! But I don't expect it will last. Just saw announcement of a new TV show: "Ow, my Trump!" The end is nigh!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 15 2016, @12:45AM
He was a 'tard and now he's a president! He sure put the smackdown on Vince McMahon [youtube.com] at Wrestlemania 23!! He starred in an awesome porno. [nydailynews.com] Coolest president ever!!! Hi 5s bro!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏