[snakeoil]

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[RealJustme]

Grist org :lol:

[Clownkicker]

RealTool is unaware of the irony here.

snakeoil links an article that says conservatives are less ignorant than previously thought and RealTool just laughs off its source because he's as ignorant as we previously thought.

Classic RealTool. :lol:

[RealJustme]

Grist org :lol:

[Clownkicker]

You're right, RealTool, any site that says conservatives aren't as ignorant as we thought has got to be a crock of shit.

You're living proof that they are wrong about this.

[snakeoil]

Thank you Clownkicker. It's a shame that we have to explain every post to Justme.

[johnforbes]

The problem occurs when politics intrudes into the realm of science.

Nobody would trust Al Gore on science given his C average as a media studies/politics major. Gore then went on to drop out of law school with failing grades.

If you read books such as Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, or any history of science, you see instance after instance of false certitude.

Nobody doubted Euclid, or Newton, or any number of others during their intellectual reign.

But they turned out to be wrong.

Galileo said "Eppur si muove" but everybody at the time thought the Inquisition was correct.

It wasn't.

It tends to muddy the waters when politicians mess around in such matters.

For all anybody knows, Al Gore may be right. Or he may be wrong. It is prudent to remain skeptical when people with vested interests push some agenda.

Obama, for example, says anthropogenic global warming can't be doubted, but Obama's SAT, GRE, and LSAT scores are sealed in total secrecy. Why? If he had some great mind, he'd be delighted to have such scores published.