This is an interesting observation. One wonders about the future of monotheism in a world that is increasingly scientific, though barbaric at the same time. Personally, I don’t think that individual horrific periods of time, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, that …
Category: Renewables – Science
What’s Gone So Wrong?
Re: the meme here, it’s clear that we’ve lost a great deal of ground since 1993, as if we need another reminder. A cosmetologist told me today that vaccines are a hoax because people can still get COVID even after …
Tagged with: medical scientific community
Scientists As Leaders
If and when we make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we need to expect huge differences between the evolution of their civilization and that of our own. The meme here brings up an interesting idea: What if we the people demanded …
Tagged with: Common sense laws, education with rich curricula delivered by well-paid teachers, everyone who wants a college degree gets one, extraterrestrial intelligence, full sustainability based on the deployment of every relevant piece of technology, political and economic system that eliminates poverty, pristine and stable environment
Scientists and Republicans
Good point being made here. It could be said that scientists and Republicans are the opposites of one another; in fact, most of the people in the U.S. who reject scientific evidence on things like climate change, vote counting, and …
I Thought Nothing Coming from Herschel Walker Would Surprise Me, Until ….
No one expects professional football players to be atmospheric scientists, but can’t we hope that they’ll simply keep their mouths shut? If I tried to tell an elementary school child that our clean air is going to China and that …
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Tagged with: atmospheric scientists
We Need To Stay Away From Right-Wing Propaganda
A friend is calling for President Joe Biden to be impeached, based on his failure to provide Americans with enough cheap energy. As source material, he cites this piece from Tucker Carlson. I reply:
Walking the Line Between a Bad Idea and a Scam
How much value would it add to your life if you could use your phone to access the precise weather conditions at your home at any given time? Here’s a device that will set you back $329 that you can …
Questioning the Science
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: unfortunately this concept has been disregarded for the last couple of years. Obviously, science “happens” when people with the appropriate background and training call into question today’s beliefs and offer new hypotheses for …
Tagged with: questioning science
What Makes Our Life Meaningful?
I hope the author of the meme here doesn’t judge the value of his life by his success or failure on any of this. I don’t want to sound cynical, but there is no reason to believe humankind evolved here …
Judging American Intelligence
What Lincoln wrote here is a much more eloquent statement of what I like to say about current-day Americans, i.e., OK, we’re stupid, but we’re not that stupid. Every time I’ve gone down this line, I’ve eaten crow. We live …
