The meme here raises some interesting points, but it’s loaded with errors. The existence of ether was an assumption in pre-20th Century physics, before the nature of light was understood. It was believed that the propagation of light waves must …
Category: Renewables – Science
Questioning the Science
The concept here is one we frequently hear from grocery store clerks, landscape architects, right-wing news anchors, and others whose lack of scientific training render them completely incapable of “questioning the science.” Btw, doesn’t Charles Schulz have any living descendants? …
Tagged with: Questioning the Science
Event Planners Would Do Well To Avoid Venues in Moral Hellholes
I’m with you, pal. I used to attend the large tech conferences in Orlando. I wonder how many event organizers today are thinking: Ya know what? People of intelligence and compassion resent the living hell out of this state. Let’s …
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Tagged with: Trump Hotel
American Ignorance on Display
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.
Tagged with: Dunning Kruger
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 …
Another Exoplanet (Earth-Size, Habitable Zone) Found
Every time we get another reminder that we may be on the cusp of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, a thought runs through my mind: It’s possible that these “people” evolved to be a lot like us, though …
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Those Who Reject Science
The meme here is great, but most of the people who reject the findings of science do so because they are on the receiving end of false data they believe to be scientifically valid. If you turn on Fox News …
Jesus Christ, the Greatest American of All-Time
A reader sent me this and notes: “The greatest #American of all-time Jesus Christ stands with the #truckers in #Ottawa #Canada against the #covid_19 #covid #vaccine.” I normally refrain from ridiculing others’ religious beliefs, but this calls for an exception, …
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Abortion Rights on the Run–What It Means in Terms of Demographics
It should come as a surprise to no one that, as half of the United States shifts (actually, squirts) to the extreme right, abortion rights are in the process of going away–at least in the red states. Given that we …
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The Age of Reason Got Left in the Dust
If there is a recurring theme to the politically-focused posts here at 2GreenEnergy, it could be summed up as “how far we’ve fallen.” The author of the meme here has nailed something. American revolutionary Thomas Paine’s famous book shares its …
Tagged with: climate deniers, MAGA, Qanon, Republicans' support for Putin, the anti-vaxxers, the Big Lie, the insurrection
