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Weekend Open Thread: Science Is Real

by: Dean Barker

Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 06:57:32 AM EST
Despite what some in the GOP would have you believe, science is real:
This is a Weekend Open Thread.

Adding: Here's a helpful list of those organizations that believe anthropogenic climate change is real, and those who don't.  A look at the titles on the list tells you everything you need to know about the GOP's recent committment to anti-science.
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Is Stupak Stupid? You decide. (0.00 / 0)

Sentence structures found only in the UL (4.00 / 3)
...that he go on a paid leave from his more than $98,691-a-year job ($133,346 when the value of benefits are included) until...

Question: what is "more than" $98,691 a year? $98,691.99?

Question: "when the value of benefits are included" Really, DiStaso?

What a joke.

http://www.unionleader.com/art...


Also--- (0.00 / 0)
the other day, a poster on KOS used the phrase "episodic view of reality" to describe how conservatives see the world.  Then, quite by chance, as I was exploring the long-term consequences of perinatal asphyxia (oxygen deprivation during birth), I was surprised to learn that episodic memory and the memory for facts tends not to be affected, while various kinds of co-ordination and executive functions are.  A lack of executive function is currently being identified in conjunction with the autism spectrum diagnosis and that, in turn, has led to the hypothesis that caesarian sections and incubation practices may inadvertently be causing oxygen deprivation.  Of course, oxygen deprivation has long been associated with breech births, as well as strangulation by the umbilical chord.  So, for many infants, birth is a near-death experience whose long-term effects are not well known.

Who knows whether such an initial fear experience persists in the subconscious and could account for the fear-fixation that seems characteristic of conservatives.  There might be a rational explanation for their behavior, after all.

Science may be real (0.00 / 0)
but don't try telling that to the people who publish textbooks for home schoolers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/201...

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.
states are doing it, too! (0.00 / 0)
Sadly, states are requiring (or want to require) schools  to teach both sides of the "theories" of evolution and global warming.  And then want to do it in science classes.  When I took science, we were taught facts, not ridiculous ideology.  The GOP wants to change this in the hopes of indoctrinating kids.
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