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posted by on Thursday December 08 2016, @10:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-like-a-massacre dept.

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.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 09 2016, @01:24AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday December 09 2016, @01:24AM (#438953) Homepage

    Whether or not you love or hate Donald Trump, media outlets like Wired and ArsTechica etc. are only shooting themselves in the foot by gratuitously bringing Trump's name into every article ranging from GPU stats to sno-cone making.

    Not only does it make them look whiny and petulant, but it puts off a lot of viewers to the point of leaving, possibly permanently. ESPN has been hemorrhaging viewers and subscribers [zerohedge.com] and a big part of that is politicization of the NFL. They blame it on "alternative media delivery" but American sports are so locked-down, legally and culturally, that alternative media delivery is not a valid excuse. In America, as in other parts of the world, sports are a social event. You're hootin' and hollerin' at a bar with an expensive sports package on the TV, or you're hootin' and hollerin' in somebody's home, and that somebody purchased an expensive cable sports package for 400 bucks a month (filthy casual fairweather bandwagon fans like me catch low-quality streams of dubious legality when we're too cheap to go to a bar -- and finding those streams is perhaps the only decent use of Reddit -- and anyway watching illegitimate streams of sports is like running pirated copies of Windows, because you're still suckling from their teet).

    Anyway, whiny Jew-run media outlets, heed my advice -- if you want not to piss your readers off, keep your politics the way they've always been, rotate your villains-du-jour by name every once in awhile and/or demonize the ideology rather than individuals whenever possible. Hillary lost because of you, so get a fucking clue instead of doubling-down and ensuring your own destruction -- unless, of course, your CIA or Clinton-Foundation-granted funds are drying up and you have nothing to lose.

    Important note: Those rules don't apply to discussion-centric sites such as Soylentnews -- civilized, and uncivilized, discussions are the cornerstone of our M.O. Fite!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:02AM (#438965)

    > Anyway, whiny Jew-run media outlets,

    Just fuck off already you shitheel.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 09 2016, @02:16AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday December 09 2016, @02:16AM (#438970) Homepage

      You're almost as bad as a grammar-nazi.

      " You said 'it's' instead of 'its,' therefore, your word is null and void. And the color of your tie sucks, too. "

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Friday December 09 2016, @03:31AM

        by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday December 09 2016, @03:31AM (#438996) Homepage Journal

        Since you're counting on no one seeing his actual comment because he's AC, I'll point out that the anonymous gentleman... er, person (not gentlemanly language) is most likely Jewish and highly offended at your anti-Semetic "whiny Jew-run media outlets", you stupid racist.

        Yes, we know why you voted for Trump. You're a stupid bigot (but "stupid bigot" is redundant).

        I echo the AC's sentiments, troll.

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        mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @04:08AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @04:08AM (#439010)

          No. I'm actually muslim.
          Fucktards like ethan are the enemy of all decent people, regardless of culture.

          • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:43PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:43PM (#439164)

            //No. I'm actually muslim.

            But you are functionally equivalent to a jew. Friends of jews are also unwanted outsiders. It can only be a one-way friendship. You may call a jew a 'friend' and mean it, but he will call you a 'friend' only so he can take advantage of you and stab you in the back. Never underestimate the cunning of the jew.

            //enemy of all decent people, regardless of culture.

            Wow! You have the skill to call jews 'decent' and then you called judaism 'culture'. There is no 'culture' here. Decency never touched a jew. The enemy of decent cultures is the jew.

            Did the JIDF send you here? How many Shekels are you getting?

            P.S: Jew is a race.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @05:52AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @05:52AM (#439030)

          Hurray for virtue signaling! Do you get extra beans in your soup at the group home now?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @06:12AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @06:12AM (#439036)

            The only one virtue signaling here is ethan. All that narcissist ever does is wave his credentials for the biggest audience he can get.
            The fact that his virtue is of the cesspool makes no difference.

          • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 09 2016, @06:13AM

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday December 09 2016, @06:13AM (#439038) Journal

            Why is it the only people who say "virtue signalling" are the ones who have no virtues to begin with? Back to the depths of hell with you.

            --
            I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:53PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:53PM (#439167)

              Why is it that you find it important to attack people whom you know nothing about?

              Would you like to elaborate on your statement? How do you know that "all" people who ever said "virtue signalling" are without virtues themselves. Making a positive statement to increase goodwill and understanding is a virtue and you don't have it.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 09 2016, @06:46PM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday December 09 2016, @06:46PM (#439311) Journal

                Simple: the term "virtue signalling" has become, ironically, a signal beacon itself, same as the word "cuck." Its use nearly always identifies a certain ideology (fascism, of the neo-Nazi...excuse me, "alt-right" flavor) which itself can only take hold in people lacking the virtues of common humanity.

                tl;dr: cry harder. you don't fool anyone but yourself.

                --
                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:29PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @02:29PM (#439159)

          Not calling them Jew-run media outlets will not make them non-Jewish. Jew-run media is the problem the world needs to solve. If it wasn't for the Jew-run media, world opinions would be different from what they are now. There would be more science and technology and no war.

          And "Jew" should not be an insult, but it is.

          The Jew mixes with the other races in order to hide his true self. With a European, he is a European. With a Black, he is Black. But when he comes together with his own group, he is a Jew. The Jew is allowed to make friends with non-Jews, but only to use them.