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Ah, the People of Science videos. Thanks, Robert. I have seen and enjoyed several of them.

Flavivirus implications are more “frightening” to theists than to atheists; we accept natural selection and its consequences.

Think MMO, means, motives, opportunities. The current crop of theists in America’s government seem determined to reduce the means and opportunities to cope with the consequences.

Science requires both deduction and induction.

One without the other — such as Albert Einstein’s thought experiments, or mathematics only, or theoretical physics — can and has resulted in flawed science and vast waste of taxpayers’ money.

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If woman want to be treated equally and then two sentences later I hear “the first woman to…..” well… what is one to think?

My take: after hundreds of years–even thousands in some cultures, there’s still a lot of catching up left. Men have driven civilizations’ “progress” long, hard, and fast, but (imo) the human species will bu…[Read more]

“However there seem to be few asking a much more important question: Why did it take Disney so long…meanwhile excluding 5% of the male population from its films and roles for the last several decades?”

From my perspective, that question has already been asked quite often. When Finding Dory, Zootopia, and the live action Beauty and the Beast w…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
“the first woman to…..”

I’m not sure celebrating milestones is in itself counter to the idea of equality. If anything it is a reminder of just how difficult it is to break through in a job or role or position. This year, for example, the US House may have its first Native American woman representative. It is really hard to believ…[Read more]

Would you believe it!! Turns out Matt Damon is not a secret agent with amnesia. He was just acting the part all along. Still I suppose a good secret agent has to be a good actor.

It gets worse! It turns out that Tom Hanks was not a real lawyer in the movie “Philadelphia” and they gave him an Oscar for it!! What was that all about! Hanks should…[Read more]

A lot of people will view this as just a variation on “whitewashing.”

You might as well just buy the dead animal from an inventory as go on a “hunt” with a guaranteed outcome.

That said, nature is a bitch.

In their natural environment, most of the hunted animals would probably die a far more painful and violent death, in many cases being eaten by their killers before they had actually died. I would hope that any…[Read more]

I should also admit I’ve used LGTB+ and gay men alternatively and that was a screw up on my part. Lesbian, bi-, trans and + all have it actually much harder than gay men in terms of being represented in major roles (as  well as being cast in any films). Much worse! In fact Scarlet Johanson was so attacked for accepting a trans. role she gave it…[Read more]

It is a step in the right direction and in the big picture, eventually a gay actor will play a major gay role as well.

Your push/pull summary is a fantastic description of a very familiar dilemma to me as a privileged, white, straight male: the “I’m dammed if I do and dammed if I don’t” scenario. So I will not bring up topics or have discussions…[Read more]