Sunday, December 22, 2013
Another NP
This NP stands for Non-Partisan, and it always means "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off to the left of Pol Pot."
Classic example: a new "Non-Partisan" action committee called Franklin's List hopes to support more candidates who have real career experience in science and technology. From that basic phrase you could imagine a truly neutral organization. Many engineers and technologists and biomed types are non-Communist. Those who measure reality directly and purposefully, like geologists or weathercasters or X-ray technicians, are often genuinely scientific. The problem is with the theoretical types, who are universally insane.
Don't worry. The basic standard of "career experience in science and technology" has nothing in common with Franklin's List. Their Non-Partisan nature is blazingly clear. Here's the FIRST paragraph of their mission statement:
Science is under threat from policy makers at every level of government. Denialist politicians are confusing and distorting evidence on scientific theories such as climate change and evolution while funding for scientific research and development continues to be cut. In addition to perpetuating ignorance on scientific subjects, such misinformation can diminish State’s educational standards, negatively affect the Country's economic competitiveness, and, in the case of climate change or meteorite impact, can be fatal.An amazingly terse and compact statement of fashionable genocide. Covers all the poison bases and uses all the toxic terminology in exactly 73 words. I doubt that Pol Pot ever stated his anti-civilization goals and dreams so concisely.
Labels: Blinded by Stats, Carbon Cult
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