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Yeah Enco, I don’t recall exactly when Americans started loading themselves onto the short busses because I spent my working years with teams of engineers and scientists. I generally thought the average among us had a lick of sense. My grandparents understood that vaccines do save lives and authoritarianism is bad. They knew not to eat so much…[Read more]

Robert,

Yeah, I know, it’s just a false allegory, like most of bible but it gets a point across. Plus, I think any frogs swimming in our little pond will get eaten by a largemouth bass almost immediately. There are a few very large (~10 lbs) channel catfish in there as well. I stocked the pond eight years ago.

Frogs are definitely smarter than m…

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Burst into bull frog? There are a few known cases of it happening.

Frog log.

There i was. There i was. Northern Maine beside the lake beneath the trees fluttering and dancing in the breeze. GF sitting peacefully alongside ingesting the tranquil scene and the din of nature. Well don’t ya know i burst into bullfrog. I am a passable mimic. Even so am to this day unsure what caused me to break into bullfrog. Don’t…[Read more]

Reg and Simon,

Scientific objectivity is a myth but not every idea deserves equal time.

Just because science is practiced in the context of a particular society, culture, or time period doesn’t mean science is bound to that context and not objective.

Something is objective when it’s there when you sleep and there when you wake or when you turn…[Read more]

I think the writer is “tilting at windmills” and is arguing a point that does not need to be made. It could even be deemed a “strawman argument”. Her critique seems aimed more at an imagined “scientific arrogance” than at how science is genuinely practiced. Very few scientists claim perfect objectivity; rather, they emphasize the method as t…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Scientific objectivity is a myth

I argue a more accurate view of science is that pure objectivity is impossible. Once you leave the myth of objectivity behind, though, the way forward is not simple. Instead of a belief in an all-knowing science, we are faced with the reality that humans are responsible for what is…

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Thanks Reg 🙂

Robert,

Just frogs in a pot as the water begins to boil.

Contrary to that old urban legend, frogs only stay in water as young tadpoles. Grown frogs don’t stay in water, no matter what the temperature.

This actually makes them smarter than humans in that respect. Frogs don’t engage in The Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Reg,

JD Vance’s Catholicism is displayed by admitting he is happy to commit war crimes.

You know, if someone really wanted to “Make America Healthy Again,” not to mention “End Forever Wars,” and have “Gold Standard Science,” they could start by using Genetic Engineering to make drugs that kill pain without killing people and which don’t e…[Read more]

Just frogs in a pot as the water begins to boil.

“My farm is going out of business, but I still believe Trump is doing the right thing”.

Ain’t that America. Little pink houses for you and me.

Have a great week everyone!!

Atheism isn’t a belief—it’s a refusal to pretend. 

Although it’s from a ‘Gentile’, I find he offers a different viewpoint…..sample.

Enco,

I think i am a bit older than you so i caught the beginning of the shit show. It was layed on a little thicker and the trajectory has carried.

Ok how about a little scatalogical ditty?

Shit, piss, corruption, snots, 21 assholes tied in a knot.

Jake,

All true. When I went to college, they didn’t have separate classes devoted to Woke power relations, but the same ideology was scattered in many specialized classes that usually ended with “-Studies.”

One history professor had materials promoting such Anti-Israel figures as Congressman Paul Findley and Rev. Jesse Jackson. A poly-sci…[Read more]

Enco,

What is amazing is how ivy league schools before you can take middle eastern history courses you have to be indoctrinated into oppressor/oppressed belief. Take that class first. I am basing that contention on the say-so of a middle eastern studies student hearsay but i am guessing it is true. Can you imagine being that stupid that you…[Read more]

Jake,

Important to note in discussing Wokeism: Bona Fide oppression is not a good thing to be aquiesed.

But what Wokeism gets wrong is making Oppressor and Oppressed into inborn attributes which are products of immutable categories such as “race,” “ethnicity,” nationality, sex, sexual orientation, or even ones imborn Class. In truth,…[Read more]

Strega,

Picked up from BlueSky…

RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle.

“I can already see children getting healthier,” he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. “The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking.”

His left ear drops off.

On a more seri…[Read more]

Enco,

Sam Harris said of his ethnicity it is the least interesting thing about me. It ought to be but being Jewish results in lefties/Muslims condemning all Jews for the putative wrongdoings of Israel. And in the case of Muslims all Jews are evil. Pounded into their heads from childhood.

The entire construct of the lefties is an exercise in…[Read more]

Picked up from BlueSky…

RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle.

“I can already see children getting healthier,” he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. “The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking.”

His left ear drops off.