I disagree. I don’t have tendency to give any fuck to a billboard. But when I’m stuck at traffic, even if I’m listening to podcast, my eyes would subconsciously wander looking for something to see. More often than not, it’s advertisements like this..

The advantage this has is that even if people aren’t reading this as they drive by (and some may have plenty of time for reading if these are in high-traffic areas prone to gridlock), local news channels live off this kind of shit, and every one of them in these Reps’ districts will be running stories plastering those…

Really? I didn’t get the joke, at all.

I don’t know, I’m pretty sure a lot of conservatives find privacy violations to be deeply unsettling. First of all, do you really believe that there aren’t millions of “staunch, family values conservatives” who are cheating on their wives, etc.? They should be made aware that their name could show up on a published…

I disagree. Quite the opposite in fact. The online audience already knows what happened. It’s the ones who don’t regularly visit sites like Gizmodo that are the target audience of these ads because they’re the ones who need to be outraged in order for anything to happen.

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The woman is Mother Earth!

You see, “Climate change” as a movement is about people who lacking religion still somehow need to believe they live at some critical juncture in history and are annointed to save the world, because they are important. They don’t and they aren’t. Politically it is like any other cult predicting the end of the…

The reason people like this are called science deniers is because they practice denialism. 

Sorry, but you don’t know what your talking about.
Try watching this video which explains how all that happened was re-calibrating to old measurements taken by ships with hot engines newer measurements using buoys..

Thing is, it’s not legitimate scientists who are doing that. I’ve heard that as well, although I wonder how much is just the science doubters “sharing what they heard”, like that of the urban legends that you eat 7 spiders in your sleep in your lifetime or that if you eat Pop Rocks and drink Coke, your stomach will…

I think your characterization is just about right for the emotional reality of what’s presently happening. However, I believe that if you argue *using* something long enough (scientific method) you start to internalize it. I don’t think the Founding Fathers were intrinsically people who LOVED tolerating people they…

Care to show where this happened?

...history is littered with the human wreckage of scientific errors married to political power.

When I think of all the work that went into the doctorate, the master’s before that, all of the fucking field work, the independent studies, the writing papers and reviewing others’ papers - all of that work I’ve done in order to be able to call myself a scientist, all all of those years and effort just a waste. All I…

There’s something fundamentally wrong with a system of free press that feels compelled to provide a false equivalence between science and irrational science deniers, when so much is at stake in our technological age that depends on science literacy and voting.

I don’t think so. I think that the right is pulling closer and closer (fuck, they’ve actually arrived) to a full-bore postmodern understanding of science, where all truth claims must be judged by the ideology of whever it was that made them. Which means that anything that the left accepts, for whatever reason, must be…

We don’t believe they even have an acute awareness of cause and effect, let alone relativity.

The debate is actually over... Climate Change is real. Period. Fin. Exeunt.

They know — as all environmentalists should — that history is littered with the human wreckage of scientific errors married to political power.