Scientific American: "Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy"

[August]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Because the same crap is happening in your, mine, his... every country that isnt a theocracy.
Well, in your defence, he could have written in the title ''western democracy''

Skybird sees himself as an authority of just about everything. For the past 7 years that I've been reading his posts here i've found that he loves to cherry pick negative articles in order to pronounce his judgements as if they actually had any value.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by August

Skybird sees himself as an authority of just about everything. For the past 7 years that I've been reading his posts here i've found that he loves to cherry pick negative articles in order to pronounce his judgements as if they actually had any value.

He's the devils advocate on the forum. He even gets some of them right.

I can be the sunshine positive optimist of this forum if you want someone to balance Sky out. But I'll probably shoot myself after a week

[August]

Originally Posted by Betonov

He's the devils advocate on the forum. He even gets some of them right.

Self-appointed devils advocate.

I can be the sunshine positive optimist of this forum if you want someone to balance Sky out. But I'll probably shoot myself after a week

I don't know if it's even possible to balance out such awesome and terrible negativity but please don't try. I like reading your posts and wouldn't want to see you hurt yourself!

[gimpy117]

Well, in the cold war we too to science like fish to water,

now...candidates have to pretend that the world is 6,000 years old just to get a vote.

It's silly to expect our technological advantage to continue at this rate

[MH]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

Well, in the cold war we too to science like fish to water,

now...candidates have to pretend that the world is 6,000 years old just to get a vote.

It's silly to expect our technological advantage to continue at this rate

Actually life goes on while others make headlines.

USA is very colorful country with a lot of things going that are hard to swallow for europeans.
I personally see this diversity as a merit even thou it may cause all sorts of headlines.

I also wonder why this particular thing came up just now lol.


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[Sailor Steve]

And August has successfully managed to steer the discussion away from the article itself, which is actually pretty interesting, whether you agree with it or not.

[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And August has successfully managed to steer the discussion away from the article itself, which is actually pretty interesting, whether you agree with it or not.

Have patience Spanky. It's just page 1.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

Have patience Spanky. It's just page 1.

Okay, will do.

even I was dumded down years ago that we had no oil here,

How dumb does someone have to be to ever think that?
Even fictional backwoods hicks like the Clampetts knew about Texas tea

not to mention how many birds that are killed.

But please mention it
wind power 20,000
coal and oil power 14,000,000
damn them turbines eh

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Betonov

my cat once caught a hawk. the last time I saw it was somewhere above the Alps

Originally Posted by Catfish

imagining the picture

This one?



You may now return on topic.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by August

I like reading your posts and wouldn't want to see you hurt yourself!

Good thing you werent here one hour ago when I managed to got stuck in the woods with my car. And then getting unstuck
I hope the boss wont need me tommorow, a visit at the mechanic is a must


Back on topic:

Actually life goes on while others make headlines.

USA is very colorful country with a lot of things going that are hard to swallow for europeans.
I personally see this diversity as a merit even thou it may cause all sorts of headlines.

THIS !!!!
There's enough scientific oriented Americans to cancel out the bible nuts. They just prefer to read books and do research than scream at others

[August]

Originally Posted by Betonov

THIS !!!!
There's enough scientific oriented Americans to cancel out the bible nuts.

Not just cancel out but overwhelm them by several orders of magnitude. The foreign press (and ours as well) like to play up the idea as being pervasive throughout our society but in reality it is pretty rare to find someone who actually believes it.

[Skybird]

Has anyone here even cared to read that article, which is 6 pages? Steve seems to have read it - but any others of those talking in here?

In other words does anyone in here beside Steve know what he is talking about and what this thread is about?

Just curious...

Has anyone here even cared to read that article

Of course not, I didn't read the Presidential candidates anwsers either though I must say Romney does go on a bit while sayiong little and seem to contradict many of the statements he has made during the campaign, but I suppose thats because he is targeting the audience of the journal and not his party fanbase.

[Tchocky]

Yubba, the amount of birds killed by wind turbines is proportionally minuscule compared to cats and other predators.