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Dr. Richwine has apparently touched the heart of the Liberal religion. Such ideas must be banned and those who persist, sent to Guantanamo...
I wish this were a piece in The Onion, but it's not.
HT to J Donovan
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2 comments:
Fortunately, the comment section is overwhelmingly against him, telling him to find the science to refute him or leave him alone. Rightly lambasting him for adopting the tactics of the Spanish Inquisition. But jeez, how prickly liberals become when somebody submits evidence that questions their world view.
Reminds me of the flap over at justusboys about the recent study that suggests that men with greater upper body strength tend to be more conservative than men with less upper body strength. The discussion included liberal (no pun intended) use of the Fallacy Fallacy against a paper that used the term "tended," not "are," and then sweeping and dogmatic adoption of the notion that men with developed upper bodies have no time to develop their brains, and the tired old idea that conservatives are stupid, liberals are intelligent.
Always nice to have a reminder of why I hate these people.
-Sean
And the scary thing is, these people will dismiss any and all comparisons to the Inquisition, why? It's different this time?
In 1997, social psychologist Phoebe Ellsworth was giving a talk about emotions, and prefaced it with the history of psychology on the subject. When she mentioned the word "experiment," audience members countered that the scientific method was developed by white Victorian men. When she responded that it was the work of white Victorian men that lead to the discovery of DNA, the audience responded, in all seriousness, "You believe in DNA?"
Science, real science, does not reject or accept anything without investigating claims and attempting to validate finds. The social sciences are a different beast, but the notion that you should reject something out of hand without investigating it isn't science. That's religious dogma.
-Sean
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