tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post4970008126066889624..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Spreading Scientific LiteracyBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-28640097065733506232013-07-14T00:29:29.160-04:002013-07-14T00:29:29.160-04:00In brightest day
In blackest night
These mofos bet...In brightest day<br />In blackest night<br />These mofos better get science right.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-84838579092806449882013-07-13T20:41:42.127-04:002013-07-13T20:41:42.127-04:00Many people get into scuffles about science.
~<a href="https://twitter.com/billmon1/status/356110272961847298" rel="nofollow">Many people get into scuffles about science.</a><br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-60044142631574251382013-07-13T17:49:51.944-04:002013-07-13T17:49:51.944-04:00Sometimes the act of spreading scientific literacy...<i>Sometimes the act of spreading scientific literacy itself results in one's being perceived as being a bit of an asshole. It's the cost when you challenge people to think through their beliefs and assumptions. </i><br /><br />People will perceive you as being a bit of an asshole if you root for a different ball team than they do. Better to burst their bubbles with the harsh light of truth and be thought an asshole than to let them wallow in misinformation.<br /><br /><i>And who loves to use undefined vague sciencey sounding terms. It's a bit like arguing with a creationist, so maybe there's no point.</i><br /><br />Ah, a WOO! addict. They're even more annoying than Bible beaters, they're just not trying to undermine the separation of church and state.<br />Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-20704519649710072362013-07-13T15:02:15.065-04:002013-07-13T15:02:15.065-04:00well, since both you and mikey are far more scienc...well, since both you and mikey are far more sciencey thinker types than I am, perhaps you can weigh in over <a href="http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-texas-legislature-nuclear-option.html" rel="nofollow">here,</a> where I got into a scuffle with a Greenwaldian Libertoonian who doesn't understand that when physicists and engineers refer to 'free energy' they don't mean that there's no cost to make use of it. And who loves to use undefined vague sciencey sounding terms. It's a bit like arguing with a creationist, so maybe there's no point.<br /><br />The argument extended into subsequent posts also.<br /><br />Feel free to point and laugh.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-5601973014824634692013-07-13T12:12:06.038-04:002013-07-13T12:12:06.038-04:00Sometimes the act of spreading scientific literacy...Sometimes the act of spreading scientific literacy itself results in one's being perceived as being a bit of an asshole. It's the cost when you challenge people to think through their beliefs and assumptions. <br /><br />People love their Star Trek and Star Wars and do not react well when I point out the problems, from physical limits on relativistic speeds to maneuvering in space to the energy challenges of large-scale directed energy weapons to the lack of even the most speculative theoretical physical basis for "shields".<br /><br />Or last week, when I pointed out the problems with any real evidence-based discussion of a Multiverse cosmological theory and a surprising number of people were butthurt. You have to remind them that science doesn't care what you WANT to believe, it exists to be discovered and explained in physical terms, and provides both opportunities and challenges...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com