The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the fault is ours

[paulgiamatti]

And by the way, I'm always going to completely ignore any piece of literature that uses the word "scientism", unless it's for the purpose of ridiculing its use as pseudointellectual jargon, which it is.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And by the way, I'm always going to completely ignore any piece of literature that uses the word "scientism", unless it's for the purpose of ridiculing its use as pseudointellectual jargon, which it is.

Wikipedia on Michael shermer:
Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. Since April 2001, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. He is also a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health.
In February 2002, he characterized the position that "God had no part in the process [of the evolution of mankind]" as the "standard scientific theory".[40] this was criticized by fellow scientist Eugenie Scott in January 2006, who commented that science makes no claim about God one way or the other.[
Then his 2006 book Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, marshals point-by-point arguments supporting evolution, sharply criticizing Intelligent Design. This book also argues that science cannot invalidate religion, and that Christians and conservatives can and should accept evolution.
The Mind of The Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics was released in 2007. In it Shermer reports on the findings of multiple behavioral and biochemical studies that address evolutionary explanations for modern behavior.
Shermer made a guest appearance in a 2004 episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, in which he argued that events in the Bible constitute "mythic storytelling," rather than events described literally.


Obviously someone who would want to belittle science.

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by Glenzig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Obviously someone who would want to belittle science.

It's just such a silly term. It doesn't bring up any interesting arguments and is far too often coopted and appropriated into conversation for the scoring of points or leveraging oneself where someone simply doesn't have any.

So go ahead and bring up scientism - I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying I'm going to ignore it.

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's just such a silly term. It doesn't bring up any interesting arguments and is far too often coopted and appropriated into conversation for the scoring of points or leveraging oneself where someone simply doesn't have any.

So go ahead and bring up scientism - I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying I'm going to ignore it.

I didn't say it. One of your unbiased scientists did.

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by Glenzig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I didn't say it. One of your unbiased scientists did.

As Christopher Hitchens would say, "impartiality has absolutely nothing to do with objectivity." In other words, being unbiased has absolutely nothing to do with being right or being wrong.

[paulgiamatti]

Oh right, yep, my bad. Vaccines are bad. God did it. How foolish I've been.

Anyone have some tin foil?

[paulgiamatti]

It isn't, especially when we have idiots like you running around making it way more apparent than anyone would like it to be.

[Luminari]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It isn't, especially when we have idiots like you running around making it way more apparent than anyone would like it to be.

The problem is that you're actually the idiot and don't actually understand science and you go around ridiculing those that actually do, thinking that you're smart when in reality you're a giant fucking moron. People like you are literally everything that is wrong with the world. You have shit for brains and are devoid of critical thinking skills. You think Wakefield is a fraud because a bunch of morons told you so and you believe it because you're an even bigger fucking moron than they are. You should honestly do society a favor and kill yourself because as it stands, you're just a complete waste of existence.

[paulgiamatti]

Anyone else notice how all the braindead antivaxxers/conspiracy nutters are almost invariably creationists?

[Luminari]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyone else notice how all the braindead antivaxxers/conspiracy nutters are almost invariably creationists?

Notice how all of the greatest scientists of all time were all creationists? Notice how science was fucking invented by creationists you dumb fuck? Notice how you have no fucking clue whatsoever how to actually use your brain?