This guy makes a good point. What we have here is the Dunning-Kruger effect in spades. People who are completely ignorant of science don’t have the tools to know how ignorant they are.
Author: craigshields
Couples Who Remain Childfree
Psychology Today reports: About one in four people choose to remain child-free, and surveys show they’re just as satisfied with their lives as parents are. The major difference: How they are judged by others. I believe that “how they are …
Refashioning America
Progressives in the United States, in general, wish they could fashion their country after Northern Europe. Scandinavians pay slightly higher taxes, but they have governments that work for all the people, not just the rich. A good example of the …
Deforestation
It’s nice to have parks in otherwise densely packed cities, but their absence isn’t ruining the planet. What is causing environmental collapse is shown below.
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Disgraced EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s Return to Politics
Fittingly, Donald Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, career oil and gas lobbyist, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt, rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, and describes himself as a “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” promptly went to …
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Could the Red States Secede?
I had a talk earlier today with an old friend who brought up the idea of letting the deep red states secede from the union. My response was that this would have been quite practical in 1860 when the South …
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Mark Meadows and Voter Fraud
Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina’s voter roll as state officials investigate allegations that he committed voter fraud in the 2020 election. Make you a deal. Plead guilty to attempting to overthrow the United States government, and we’ll …
The Electoral College
The ultra-right-wing Hillsdale College is known for its “surveys” that are essentially propaganda and fund-raising not-so-cleverly disguised as market research. Here’s a question from their survey on the Electoral College, which they favor, as it’s the only way that extreme …
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) Turns 40 Years Old
Here’s RMI’s cofounder Amory Lovins shaking hands with Jimmy Carter. It may come as a surprise that there was a time before environmentalism became a partisan issue. The Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the Nixon administration. Nowadays, notions like …
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Cognitive Bias
In a recent post Why Do Americans Revel in Deceit? in which I suggested that we Americans need to start asking ourselves why we want to be led by overtly deceitful people. I wrote: I for one would rather elect …
