Tuesday, September 02, 2025

We Believe In Science.

Do you, Mr and Ms lawn sign?

 

GMO foods?  

Organic foods? 

Genetics and heritability of cognitive and personality traits?

The law of supply and demand?

The significant clean advantages of nuclear power?

Making limiting your jet travel a priority if you believe in the dangers of CO2? 

The poor evidence base for the initiation and perseverance of nearly all education interventions advocated by education schools, education researchers, and education administrators?

Belief in priming, stereotype threat, implicit bias, and sublimal advertising?

That billionaires' salaries and "tax breaks" affect you negatively?

Minimum wage increases don't affect employment rates? 

 

That's ten right there.  That's enough for now. 

No it isn't. A bonus five. 

Mindfulness meditation?

Violent media (games, movies, TV) increases violence?

Supercentenarians and Blue Zones?

Sugar rush in children?

Emotional intelligence?

 

And perhaps most important of all, even if you do acknowledge some of the above are poorly evidenced or even false, do you put out rainbow yard signs about these? The science you believe in seems to be mostly politics.

 

 

 

6 comments:

The Mad Soprano said...

"Making limiting your jet travel a priority if you believe in the dangers of CO2?"

Climate laws are sumptuary laws, plain and simple.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Good pickup

Earl Wajenberg said...

"The science you believe in seems to be mostly politics."
The science you DISbelieve in is certainly a matter of politics.

G. Poulin said...

They display the creed of an evil and false religion on their front lawns for all to see. Satan is laughing all the way to the bank.

bs king said...

Natal males having no strength advantage over females. Even Malcolm Gladwell now admits people were just bullied in to saying that: https://x.com/jennifersey/status/1963011651747418472?s=61&t=9pafbW7gpM66p5qyCT2bdA

james said...

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says ‘science teaches such and such’, he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach it; experience teaches it” Richard Feynman