Saturday, April 27, 2019
Transitive angels dancing in a pinhead
Randomish thought.
I've said the first part repeatedly before. Second part is new.
Tiresome first part:
Media coverage of "science", even in the more sedate and non-clickbaity websites, focuses constantly on the craziest and least scientific toxic ratshit. 50% Global Warming, 30% crazy "physics" like multiverses, 10% perfectly wrong "social" "science", 10% biology as seen by "evolution".
New second part:
Where would science coverage focus if science journalists were trying to serve the needs of the readers?
Physics coverage would skip all the cosmic fiction and focus more on static friction, which is an essential ingredient of daily life, especially important for driving and walking.
Chemistry coverage would focus on the properties of glues and waxes.
Social science would focus on detecting and avoiding scams and frauds, and would show us how to function in the REAL WORLD where STATUS AND SKILLS ARE INNATE AND PERMANENT.
Biology already does a pretty good job of picking real and useful subjects; it would simply avoid the unnecessary entity of evolution.
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"Evolution" and "global warming" are tricks that turn intransitive observations into transitive judgments.
"Evolution created a mechanism to untangle DNA" is a sneaky transitive, basically substituting Evolution for God. The intransitive observation is "DNA has a mechanism to untangle its folds."
"Climate Change Already Impacting Water Quality" attributes pollution to the mysterious actions of Gaia. The intransitive observation would be "Nitrogen increasing in water supplies", which might lead us to control farm runoff instead of burning Deniers.
Labels: Carver, Language update
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