Thursday, March 17, 2016
Beautiful takedown
Typical satanic Numbnuts, writing in Antinature, sort of halfway gets the fact that scientists have helped to collapse their own empire by conspiring with politicians. Mainly he sees a threat to this criminal monstrosity from newly empowered Unpersons like LePen or Orban or Trump. We can't allow Unpersons to get into power! They might start to cut our empire!
Starts out okay:
The problem extends down into the community itself. We like to talk about ‘engaging the public’, but many scientists really just want to talk at them. And too many ordinary scientists hold politicians in utter intellectual contempt — even though it is the scientists who have chosen a career that allows them to pursue relatively simple problems (such as building a machine to detect gravitational waves) rather than genuinely difficult ones (such as running a social-care programme in a small town).True and valid. After this proper criticism of the usual leftist blind ignorance and bigotry, Numbnuts descends into the usual leftist blind ignorance and bigotry. Why should scientists stand back from politics? His example:
For example, they support free-trade agreements that cede the right of democratic governments to control things such as cigarette advertising or pesticide use without hard, scientific evidence. This is a political position that is pursued with great dedication by global corporations — and that is haplessly bought into by many scientists without a thought for its consequences.The only problem with free-trade treaties is that they limit the ability of nations to run HARSHER AND MORE LETHAL GENOCIDES?????????? He doesn't even begin to see the REAL problem with free-trade treaties, namely that they starve the poor and enrich the Chosen, including Big Science. Fortunately, Antinature didn't shut off comments on the article, and (so far) all the commenters have taken Numbnuts down. Nobody defends him. Highly satisfying response from several different TRUE angles. ¶ 1:47 AM
