Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Ed Driscoll has an impressive collection of links to be sprung on anyone who’s fixated on the notion that facts and reason have a well-known liberal bias:
At Ricochet, Rob Long writes:
The left likes to portray conservatives as “anti-science.” They even like to talk about a “Republican War on Science.”
Science, though, seems to be getting it from the left, at least as often.
In the NYObserver, Bill Wasik reviews Seth Mnookin’s new book The Panic Virus:
Near the beginning of The Panic Virus, Seth Mnookin’s definitive, infuriating history of the myth that vaccines cause autism, the author relates a story from a Park Slope dinner party he attended in 2007. Mr. Mnookin was discussing pediatric health with a new parent in his early 40s who explained that he and his wife had decided to delay their child’s vaccines. On what sources had he based this weighty decision? Questions along these lines were met with murk. “I don’t know what to say,” the man replied. “It just feels like a lot for a developing immune system to deal with.”
It was this F-word—feels—that left Mr. Mnookin justifiably gobsmacked, and it serves as the departure point for The Panic Virus, an attempt to explain how thousands of otherwise sophisticated Americans could make a fatuous decision to opt out of what is arguably modernity’s greatest medical achievement. Most children “exempted” from vaccines (a fittingly ridiculous term, as if the kids place out via AP exam) are not low-information progeny. They are being raised in college towns, in wealthy suburbs and in tony urban enclaves like Park Slope, by the sorts of parents who are otherwise given to grave tut-tutting about the anti-science stances of others—the climate-change know-nothings, say, or the ovine devotees of the garish Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky.
Perhaps the tide is slowly turning; as Investor’s Business Daily noted earlier this month, just before all eyes understandably turned to Tucson, junk science has come under increasing scrutiny:
A study debunking vaccines by a scientist in the pay of trial lawyers was found to be “an elaborate fraud.” Meanwhile, the “Great Garbage Patch” turned out to be a sea myth. Science has some explaining to do.Scientific inquiry, once perceived a noble redoubt of objective truth-seeking and enlightenment, is doing a bang-up job of dragging itself down to P.T. Barnum-style snake oil-elixir hype, given the amount of fraud being exposed almost daily.
Of course, mistakes happen in any field of inquiry, but these are politically motivated ruses intended to advance an agenda.
Meanwhile, in the London Telegraph, James Delingpole quips, “‘Why will no one listen to us any more?’ wails [manmade global warming] propagandist.”
Perhaps this headline from the London Independent in 2000 might answer that question.
The Left claims to be friendlier to science, and yet it works by figuring out what the conclusion is supposed to be, and then massaging and selecting the facts to fit into that. This process is oppositional from how science really works.
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Heh. Far from having a liberal bias, the facts : liberal relationship is the same as the garlic : vampire relationship. As always, the bane of the leftist is specificity. For instance, their former go-to argument about “climate change” — anyone not toeing the line was “in the pocket of the oil companies.” Of course so-and-so claims there’s no climate change, they’d sneer; he gets his paycheck from Enron….. Until the zillions of euros sluicing through the CRU came to light, and now we don’t hear that one much anymore.
I know I keep beating this drum here and y’all are probably sick of it, but I think the left’s fetishization of “science” is, like every other part of their worldview, a relic of Marxism. Socialism’s original big selling point was that it was “rational,” as opposed to the stew of tradition and inertia that made up the old world order. This makes a superficial kind of sense, and so they went with it. And since their opponents (in America at least) were usually quite outspoken about their religious faith, that sealed the deal — what’s more “irrational,” after all, than that?
And all this from the folks who stridently insist that there are no facts, only perspectives.
- Severian | 01/17/2011 @ 09:20http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2U8QlrARUw
It’s a better way. To be.
- OregonGuy | 01/17/2011 @ 09:51.
How funny that there is this common assumption that anybody who believes in creation is unscientific.
I keep challenging, as I have for years for the believers in evolution to show me any solid evidence for evolution. I’ve pissed off a lot of people with advanced degrees, but they can’t answer my challenges. I’ve posted on this at my blog: http://www.thecompostfiles.blogspot.com
Check archives: Knowing God 2, 3, and 4.
Nobody wants to take me on. Why is that?
Go expose why I’m an idiot with facts and reason. Surely it will be fun. Someone must have sound scientific proof that makes creationists look silly that they can post there.
- Moshe Ben-David | 01/17/2011 @ 12:14