Palin has not cornered false "facts" and uncommon fallacies. There is still Bachmann and Foxx. And Obama.
No mention of the Mortgage Interest Deduction or savings. No mention of the mandatory retirement age given life expectancy. No attempt to rethink "full employment" and the Baby-Boom retirees.
I meander through some of these topics over at http://eclectic-pencil.blogspot.com/2011/01/win-future.html in my regular blog.
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, July 26, 2010
Jon Stewart Nonsense Trumps Palin
Jon Stewart's interview with Marilynn Robinson was beyond belief. Jon knows that astrophysics is based on faith. The rationality of science reduces to fideism. Truly sophomoric.
I will just stop watching or listening to Jonathon Stuart Leibowitz - the interview was not amusing, or informative or satirical or ironic - it was just dumb. Compare any interview with Murray Gell-Mann. So astronomy will now be on a par with astrology. What was the David Hilbert quote? Or do we defer to Ronald Reagan's insight? Careful observation led to the dark matter hypothesis as much as esoteric theory: so dark matter is "Devil's Dung" or is it "souls of infidels". Pick your ignorance, Jon!
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. "
attributed to mathematician David Hilbert
"I don't guide my life by it ... I don't know enough about it to say, is there something to it or not ... and I don't mean to offend anyone who does believe in it, or engages in it."
Ronald Reagan on astrology
But will he interview the woman whose careful science gave us some of the first observational evidence for dark matter??? And will her personal views on mystery and faith be of any interest? Her views on sex? On vegetables? What she thinks causes her occasional constipation?
I will just stop watching or listening to Jonathon Stuart Leibowitz - the interview was not amusing, or informative or satirical or ironic - it was just dumb. Compare any interview with Murray Gell-Mann. So astronomy will now be on a par with astrology. What was the David Hilbert quote? Or do we defer to Ronald Reagan's insight? Careful observation led to the dark matter hypothesis as much as esoteric theory: so dark matter is "Devil's Dung" or is it "souls of infidels". Pick your ignorance, Jon!
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. "
attributed to mathematician David Hilbert
"I don't guide my life by it ... I don't know enough about it to say, is there something to it or not ... and I don't mean to offend anyone who does believe in it, or engages in it."
Ronald Reagan on astrology
But will he interview the woman whose careful science gave us some of the first observational evidence for dark matter??? And will her personal views on mystery and faith be of any interest? Her views on sex? On vegetables? What she thinks causes her occasional constipation?
Monday, December 21, 2009
spalinns: a pronunciation guide
True "spalinns" are pronounced "spellin's" as in "There are no agreed spellings in science".
There is no singular. No singular idiotic denial of scientific research, data, theory or accepted fact consititutes "spalinns". The term 'spalinns' is never capitalized.
spalinns occur at the point where one bit of idiocy is only conceivable in active participation with another egregious moronic belief.
spalinns due not constitute a belief system.
spalinns are a result of the willingness to pretend that science is just a way of talking so as to pursuade people to accept a point of view. Any strident political discourse or theology is as good as any scientific culture, institution, discourse or movement.
spalinns result from the notion that nothing can be proven wrong, but that those who disagree with you are obviously wrong - and more so with repetition. twitter is the place to repeat.
The end of science in the medieval world of Islam was due to a fatwa likely inspired by a nexus of spalinns. Nothing is new under the spell of spalinns.
Doctor Johnson should not be blamed for English spellin's.
There is no singular. No singular idiotic denial of scientific research, data, theory or accepted fact consititutes "spalinns". The term 'spalinns' is never capitalized.
spalinns occur at the point where one bit of idiocy is only conceivable in active participation with another egregious moronic belief.
spalinns due not constitute a belief system.
spalinns are a result of the willingness to pretend that science is just a way of talking so as to pursuade people to accept a point of view. Any strident political discourse or theology is as good as any scientific culture, institution, discourse or movement.
spalinns result from the notion that nothing can be proven wrong, but that those who disagree with you are obviously wrong - and more so with repetition. twitter is the place to repeat.
The end of science in the medieval world of Islam was due to a fatwa likely inspired by a nexus of spalinns. Nothing is new under the spell of spalinns.
Doctor Johnson should not be blamed for English spellin's.
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