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.
9 comments:
"Making limiting your jet travel a priority if you believe in the dangers of CO2?"
Climate laws are sumptuary laws, plain and simple.
Good pickup
"The science you believe in seems to be mostly politics."
The science you DISbelieve in is certainly a matter of politics.
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.
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
“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
I believe in TANSTAAFL and the second law of thermodynamics.
My rather harsh comment to a teenager who said "I believe in science" was "Anyone who says they 'believe' in science, doesn't understand what 'science' is about." I probably could have been nicer, but he needed to hear it.
I hadn't heard the Feynman line before (or I read it and forgot it), but I'll try to remember it now.
"Expert" is a lot to claim about yourself and be careful of people who try to pin it on you. I know a fair bit about many subjects, but I can't think of anything I'd claim expertise on. When expert witnesses testify at trials, it's not always a slam dunk, and they don't always agree. This doesn't mean everyone is equal. We are doing an escape room tomorrow night and I don't need to find an "expert," but I've looked a few people who know something. I seldom disagree with my doctor, though sometimes I ask questions. I respect the knowledge of someone who does a thing for a living and has some skin in the game.
Post a Comment