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

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Oh Skybird, what would you do without us to judge?

Going after the EU, Germany, the Euro, corrupted politicians, economic lobbyists, predatory capitalists, politically correct good-doers, gender-engineers, Islam, my new extremely noisy neighbours who after three months already are at war with half of the street.

Sorry if this disappoints you, but America is not the only but just one of several points on the list.

BTW, I am neither the editor nor the owner of the Scientific American. Despite the misleading title, last time I checked it was still an American-made publication.

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

BTW, I am neither the editor nor the owner of the Scientific American. Despite the misleading title, last time I checked it was still an American-made publication.

So? It's a German posting it. Who made you the judge of us or anyone else?

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by August

So? It's a German posting it. Who made you the judge of us or anyone else?

Because the same crap is happening in your, mine, his... every country that isnt a theocracy.

But, the situation may be unpleasant, it's not catastrophic. Science is not hindered by religions. Apart from stem cell research, which science managed to adapt by researching other sources than fetuses.
All this anti-science talk is a way to be loud. pro-science people will just need to be louder

A smart believer will suport science, a dumb atheist will still not contribute

[yubba]

If there was a sure cure for cancer, there would be billions lost in the drug industry, look what's going on in the energy industry in America, even I was dumded down years ago that we had no oil here, what a suprise that we have so much under our feet and we have so many denying the fact, and you know what,, global warming is really cause by all those windmills slowing the atmosphere down so it can't cool its self not to mention how many birds that are killed. If you want to get rid of co2 in the air grow more trees and stop these third world countries from cutting down their forest to make charcoal. I think some where it says we are ranked 7th in the worlds economy and we fell out of the top ten prosperious nations in the world.

[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

[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

[Tchocky]

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

[yubba]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

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

Well I haven't seen a cat take down a bald eagle lately.

[Betonov]

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

[u crank]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

...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

Don't worry about it. It's all smoke and mirrors.

This.

Originally Posted by Betonov

But, the situation may be unpleasant, it's not catastrophic. Science is not hindered by religions. Apart from stem cell research, which science managed to adapt by researching other sources than fetuses.
All this anti-science talk is a way to be loud. pro-science people will just need to be louder

Very good point.

A smart believer will support science, a dumb atheist will still not contribute.

Even better point.

Pass the maple syrup.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by u crank

Pass the maple syrup.

I never had pancakes with maple syrup. I really got to visit the US soon

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Don't be so flippant.

I can see you're not trying to butter me up.

Originally Posted by Betonov

I never had pancakes with maple syrup. I really got to visit the US soon

I can't imagine having them any other way. I've tried most of the pancake-house variations, and many are good, but I always come back to butter and maple syrup. Well, actually cheap imitation syrup. The real stuff is very expensive.