When looked at in a certain light, this level of stupidity is actually funny. Saying that transgender people do not exist is like saying that cucumbers don’t exist; it’s just factually incorrect.
Category: Renewables – Science
The Role Chance Plays in Our Lives
For all those fans of NPR’s The Hidden Brain, here’s my very favorite episode. How orderly are our lives, and the paths that our lives take? We like to think that we’re in control, but is it just simply an …
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Trump’s Failure to Think Logically Will Eventually Hit a Wall
There must be a limit as to how far this lunacy can go on.
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Our American Culture Makes Us More Stupid By the Day
Quick! Any fifth- or sixth-grade kid! Why can’t this be true?
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Dr. Fauci
I can’t prove that Anthony Fauci acted honorably during the pandemic, but the allegations against him that air on Fox News seem a bit unlikely, don’t they?
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Distrust of Science
I would say it’s largely disinformation campaigns that focus on poorly educated Americans. You won’t find Europeans who believe that climate change is a hoax or that COVID-19 was planned and implemented by some government. In the same vein, you …
Fox News to the Rescue
The point here about altering the facts is spot-on. Note, however, that the advent of Fox News and the other right-wing “news” sources about 30 years ago made all this possible. Until recently, it was very difficult to believe something …
Religion and Science
The quote here from 20th Century physicist/mathematician Paul Dirac reminds us of the hundreds of attempts to reconcile faith and reason, religion and science, call it what you will. This was the life’s work of Thomas Aquinas, btw, using nothing …
Correlation vs. Causation
To some people, the meme at left implies that they can extend their lives by reading more. Perhaps in a few rare cases, that may be true. However, it’s far more likely that there is no direct causation, and that, …
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Stephen Hawking on God
Most of our senior scientists in the modern age agree with Hawking here, but, remarkably, not all.
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