tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post9100442881820859384..comments2024-03-28T16:31:54.494-04:00Comments on Borepatch: Snotty New York Times writer is snottyBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-5045864201089007432018-10-28T23:03:09.638-04:002018-10-28T23:03:09.638-04:00"It's not science, it's some strange ..."It's not science, it's some strange religious cult. It's actually hilarious that its congregants don't have any idea that it's a strange religious cult. I guess that's the arrogance and lack of self-awareness that I was talking about."<br /><br />This is an utterly brilliant observation, one that could be applied to pretty much any "progressive" philosophy extant. Well done!the pistolerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17359966601551646387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-62485568580926095782018-10-24T07:51:42.348-04:002018-10-24T07:51:42.348-04:00The goal of Leftism is the destruction of Western ...The goal of Leftism is the destruction of Western civilization.<br /><br />The means of Leftism are the denial of reality. There is no true history. There is no true culture. There is no true religion. There is no true man or woman. There is no true adult or child. There is no true science. There are no true facts.<br /><br />MiniTru has spoken.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243337792601085456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-53507892089453341942018-10-24T01:03:44.428-04:002018-10-24T01:03:44.428-04:00"It's not science, it's some strange ..."It's not science, it's some strange religious cult." More accurately, it's a Belief System. We are hardwired for them. If you toss a belief in a higher power, that vacuum has to be filled with something. AGW will fill that hole. Unfortunately, we seem to be capable of stuffing more than one Belief into that space. Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-45647867676450264882018-10-23T12:56:57.510-04:002018-10-23T12:56:57.510-04:00Very classy response.
Also it's interesting t...Very classy response.<br /><br />Also it's interesting to me that they use the term "climate change denier", as if skeptics are denying that the climate changes, period.<br /><br />Nobody credibly disputes that climate changes*, that it is always changing. What skeptics are questioning is merely whether mankind's hypothetical role in artificially affecting the climate is as great as previously touted, which is a valid scientific question. Doubly so as the answer affects government policies that control trillions of dollars -- enough to make or break entire economies.<br /><br />In my opinion, the term "climate change denier" is a smear, and it's intentional. Just as the terms "gun nut" and "ammosexual" allow the anti-freedom groups to collectively paint all 2A supporters as crazy, the "climate change denier" label allows AGW "true believers" to paint skeptics as anti-science. It helps to undermine their opponents' arguments <b>without having to do the work of challenging the arguments themselves</b>.<br /><br />Every time I read one of these, I picture a bratty 12-year-old railing at his/her parents' reason for grounding: "Yeah, well, you're stupid!" As if that affirms the child's bad behavior and entirely negates the parents' reason or authority. News flash: it doesn't.<br /><br />(* - Actually, now that I reread that, AGW "true believers" thinking that climate doesn't change unless mankind changes it -- always for the worse, of course, because MAN -- would explain a lot.)Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09378629103793458871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-80634391490817111842018-10-23T12:42:02.749-04:002018-10-23T12:42:02.749-04:00There are times that I think I'm too pessimist...There are times that I think I'm too pessimistic when I think the postmodernist takeover of all academic institutions is going to plunge us into a second Dark Ages. Then I see things like this, and read the link at the reference frame where he writes about "a spoiled girl named Betsy Mason decided to speak to Harrison Schmitt and tell him to "consider not to speak for geologists" because "she is a geologist". " and I think I'm not being pessimistic enough. <br /><br />When you read what postmodernism is really about, you wonder "how can anyone take this crap seriously?", but they do. It has effectively taken over all of academia outside of the hard sciences, but has now achieved a beach head in hard sciences and engineering, too. The day of accepting answers in hard science because people feel good about them is visible in the future. Math and science are racist, you know.<br /><br />There's a saying that Dark Ages don't start because people forget how to run plumbing, power plants or agriculture; they start when people forget that those things were ever even possible. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.com