@tetracycloid

Possible, I suppose. Extremely unlikely, however. Human nature is what it is, and expecting people to act differently just leads to disappointment.

Do not bother trying to use reason to sway people with a faith-based thinking process. It is a waste of time.

"The problem with GMOs as food is that you can never be certain exactly what will happen once they're eaten. "

It was always a silly idea.

It seems like he was such a polarizing individual that very few people are eulogizing him without either glorifying or vilifying him.

Of course we should - science is all about learning things, and we could learn some things this way.

"Iron is rather famous for not catching fire. "

Right, but they aren't building it in the sense of it's an actual proven product. It's all kind of blue-sky stuff so far. I think "experimenting with" would have been a more accurate statement.

"The Military" really isn't building this... A private company is building it with help from DoD's research arm, in hopes of eventually making something the military might buy.

I don't think anyone who could be swayed by reason ever actually believed the "death panels" line, it was just a way to gain support by spreading fear amongst people with a superstitious mindset. I mean, it was obviously false on first principles... didn't really need a study to show that.

1984

Think of it as a step towards equal treatment of different sorts of people under the law. It doesn't matter if you're a vampire-werewolf hybrid, a regular Joe, or a jackass who thinks you're a vampire-werewolf hybrid, accessory to murder charges treat you all the same.

"I'm not stressed. I am upset. There is a big difference."

This particular filthy legacy for future generations isn't really all that filthy a legacy, compared to a lot of our other filthy legacies...

The show has all of the the problems one would expect from it's hackneyed advertising - primarily the conceptual disasters that humanity has somehow forgotten how to prevail over the rest of the natural world (even though prevailing too much has led to the colonization program), that humans are dinosaur crack, and…

Plenty of jerks exist in university administrations.

Life is a kind of time travel.

As I understand it, this theory largely applies to "Super-Earths"... I don't think too many people believe this to be the way Earth formed, if though it is within the lower limits of the theory's size category.

That's a decades-old trope in the series. It used to be the default actually - when the Doctor managed to drive it correctly, it was a surprise.