How the Right-Wing War on Science Has Made Americans Dumber at Every Level

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Conceptually, I'm leaning toward the doorknob theory but I don't understand why you are insulting the intelligence of doorknobs. What did they do you?

Why can't doors just open and close like they do on Star Trek?

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

The right (and especially the religious right) really do have a poor record when it comes to applying critical thinking... Though most people tend to let critical thinking skills go out the window for their own personal I-want-this-to-be-true-isms.. Try telling a person on the left how organic foods really do not taste better and are not better for you and you will see science go out the window.. Same with recycling, nuclear power, etc.. Show a person their want-to-be-true-isms are false and science will not persuade them.

People believe in lots of stupid stupid things like Feng-shui, crystals, magnets fixing blood problems, homeopathy, astrology, talking to the dead, Ouija Boards, etc, etc... Very sad.

Edited April 10, 2013 by OnMyWayID

[decocker 7,198]

Private industry has around 7 times the revenue the Federal government does, and somehow manages to actually make money, unlike the Federal government that currently spends half again as much as it takes in revenue. So you say government needs to take more money out of the private sector for research. Wrong. Private industry has the money and the incentive to conduct its own research.

i'd rather have both funding and conducting research, i certainly wouldn't want to have just one or the other.

Edited April 10, 2013 by val erie

[Iraqvet 68]

Whats the point in gaining truck loads of scientific knowlegde and go broke all at the same time.

Edited April 10, 2013 by Iraqvet

[decocker 7,198]

Whats the point in gaining truck loads of scientific knowlegde and go broke all at the same time.

seriously, what is the point? in my experience ingenuity is priceless.

[Iraqvet 68]

seriously, what is the point? in my experience ingenuity is priceless.

Ingenuity is. I agree. How are you going to crumble a mountain of debt over your head? It takes ingenuity to do it. Like cutting science programs that do nothing to contribute to the growing debt. This is the information age though. Just wish it was the financial information age.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Edited April 10, 2013 by Iraqvet

[decocker 7,198]

Ingenuity is. I agree. How are you going to crumble a mountain of debt over your head? It takes ingenuity to do it. Like cutting science programs that do nothing to contribute to the growing debt. This is the information age though. Just wish it was the financial information age.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

we can split hairs or we can take money shots. the amount of money cut from research, that in some cases saves our lives not just enriches, could easily be matched and surpassed focusing elsewhere.

[Ban Hammer 13,575]

we can split hairs or we can take money shots.

[mota bhai 2,675]

the mods on this site are such perverts

[decocker 7,198]

haha. i was thinking like, best bang for your buck and honestly not thinking of porn. innocent i swear.

wait i think i just did it again.

there's no hope for me..just delete all my posts

Edited April 10, 2013 by val erie

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Private industry has around 7 times the revenue the Federal government does, and somehow manages to actually make money, unlike the Federal government that currently spends half again as much as it takes in revenue. So you say government needs to take more money out of the private sector for research. Wrong. Private industry has the money and the incentive to conduct its own research.

For all the money the US spends on public education, the schools are not producing the people in enough quantity to satisfy the needs of industry. Other countries are. Something is wrong with this equation. I have seen where industry works hand in hand with public education. That system is successful, since the schools actually provide industry with the people they need. I have also seen the flip side when that cooperation ends, because of some hippie save the planet bullshit.

A Darn MEN.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Why can't doors just open and close like they do on Star Trek?

Interestingly enough do you know they had prop men doing that by hand every time someone came thru a door. I remember Bill S talking about it several years ago on some show. Oddly enough I can't remember what i did with my keys or why I sat at the computer.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

the mods on this site are such perverts

It's science bukkake!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

The right (and especially the religious right) really do have a poor record when it comes to applying critical thinking... Though most people tend to let critical thinking skills go out the window for their own personal I-want-this-to-be-true-isms.. Try telling a person on the left how organic foods really do not taste better and are not better for you and you will see science go out the window.. Same with recycling, nuclear power, etc.. Show a person their want-to-be-true-isms are false and science will not persuade them.

People believe in lots of stupid stupid things like Feng-shui, crystals, magnets fixing blood problems, homeopathy, astrology, talking to the dead, Ouija Boards, etc, etc... Very sad.

and not only that Organics yield much less per acre so there is less food.

[decocker 7,198]

and not only that Organics yield much less per acre so there is less food.

well lookit. science and math!