Actually, this comes from a much older story from the Silver Age, an Imaginary Story in Superman #162 in 1963, where Superman invents a device that splits him in two. With two Supermen, they pretty much solve all their problems and one marries Lois, while the other marries Lana. It’s silly and very, very Silver Age.

This is the same collection of silly chucklefucks who called for a boycott of ‘The Force Awakens’ because somehow a Star Wars film staring a woman and a person of colour in the lead roles makes it social justice propaganda.

This movie started filming in 2015, back when everyone still thought Trump’s candidacy was basically a joke. There’s no way the film was written to be specifically about Trump, so the #DumpStarWars movement is just idiocy. That being said, your larger point about how Star Wars is an inherently political story about…

Art is supposed to be about “all that crap.” If it’s not, then it’s just a bunch of noise, with very little consequence. People like Star Wars not just because of the big lasers, but because it actually says something.

Yeah that’s what I don’t entirely understand about those survey results; GM foods will very likely both “lead to more affordably priced food” and “increase the global food supply”; those are both good things, as study after study after study into food scarcity and security shows. But if (as the article’s POV says)…

So you base an “anti science craze” on the opposing one particular use of one particula science.

Once again, I think study results have been used to make an intuitive, but incorrect conclusion.

You’ve simplified what I said and changed it’s meaning. Given a history of producing products harmful to people for profit, clearly distrusting a product of science that is being packaged and marketed by large for-profit companies its clearly a comment of distrust of the motives of those doing the selling, as opposed…

Well the old fucks screwed with health and science education for the millenials AND we learned corporations are not to be trusted along with the government.

This is where I get to be somewhat anti-science, maybe. A little bit.
I’m not that concerned that GMO food will give me face cancer. As long as those proteins are fairly close to stock, I’m convinced my gut will do a great job of breaking it down.

No - I’m worried about the unintended consequences:

safe to eat genetically modified foods, but only 37 percent of the public does.

The difference is there is plenty of good reason to suspect scientific findings the come in the form of new products from large profit driven corporations, wrong though as they are in these cases. These people aren’t attacking science, they just don’t trust the products based on that science when it’s being packaged…

Yes, I think it is possible that people mistrust GMOs not because they mistrust science in general, but because they mistrust large corporations who may be paying for the science that says GMOs are safe.

Also I just paged through this 100 page PDF to try to find one of the images that this article used and I can’t find it and I can’t tell if I’m just not in the mood for staring at a screen.

I grew up in the pre-internet age and I member all the major news source doing stories on a regular basis about how that latest study or report from a college or foundation was turning the established view of nutrition or economics on its head.It wasn’t until I was in my early 20's,and the internet came along that I…

One thing I like about the polling is that rather than just going with self-identification (like they do for age, race, party affiliation, ideological affiliation, etc etc etc) they ask the person taking the poll some science questions to determine their “science knowledge” and then they can look at “high” “medium”…

I like these Pew Research polling reports into US science attitudes because they have a lot of data, so it’s easy to make up headlines and then find the parts of the report that agrees with your headline (and just ignore the parts that don’t).

The “organic” label is for environmentally friendly growing/shipping/processing practices. You might want to rethink that one. Being environmentally friendly might not be your bag, but its certainly not an arbitrary marketing ploy. There are reasons its there, most people just don’t understand it.

Nah, it’s terribly white. And Marvel has a real problem with a) women of color in any respect (and no, Gamora doesn’t count) and b) Yellow Peril tropes. Daredevil is full of them, both seasons. Jessica Jones, while great, really was terrible to all the people of color on that show. Marvel needs to do better. I’m not…

He comes off like a real asshole in that interview. But then, anybody who uses the term “social justice warrior” as a way to excuse his company’s fuck up is most likely an asshole.