Re: OT: It ain't science, Rocket...

On 2025-04-25 6:19 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 4/25/2025 5:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 25, 2025 at 2:39:44 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
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On 4/25/2025 4:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Apr 25, 2025 at 1:00:01 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

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  "Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks
  [were] more likely to cite research papers than their right-wing
  counterparts."
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  "There are striking differences in amount, content and character of the
  science cited by partisan policymakers ..."
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  "Left-leaning think tanks were 5 times more likely to cite science than
  right-leaning ones."

  Depends on what they consider science.
  Remember, this is the crew that told us 6 feet distancing was "the science".
  That closing outdoor geography, like beaches and oceans was necessary to
  combat the Wuhan Flu, that you couldn't get it if you were vaccinated, and
  that men can become pregnant and there are 87 genders (and counting).
  This is what the Left considers "the science", so saying they're more likely
  to cite science isn't really the own you think it is.

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Who is "the crew"?  Nature magazine?  I'm largely unfamiliar with them.
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Meanwhile, anyone with a basic grasp of science will know that "six
feet' is a threshold for an arbitrary likelihood of contagion, and not a
magic border that germs dare not cross.

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Not the point. We were told it was "the science" and only now, years later,
have the officials who told us that admitted that they made it up. They
literally just pulled the number out of their asses.

 As I illustrated, different people have different degrees of understanding about what "It's the science!" actually means.  Public announcements, otoh, have to be one-size-fits-all formulations.
 

As for this being an "own", what *I* take from it (and I do think it's
credible) is that the Left public is less prone to take things on faith.

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If you believe men can get pregnant, faith is all you're taking it on.

 Did you know that, with modern aviation, pigs can, in fact, fly?
 

Pigs have been able to fly for centuries; it has nothing to do with modern aviation. Pigs could have been (and maybe were) carried aloft in hot air balloons in centuries past. Gunpowder is believed to have first been discovered in China many centuries ago when a pig sty containing all the ingredients in gunpowder was somehow ignited. (I'm picturing a Chinese farmer hearing a strange noise from his pig sty one night going to check it out; since it's dark, he lights a torch so that he can see. A spark from his torch ignites the gunpowder and KABOOM.) I feel sure any pigs in the pig sty went flying at that moment.
But men still can't get pregnant and never have been. (I won't say they never will because science may find a way to do it someday.) Merely redefining women as men, calling them "trans-men" and then noting that these "men" are pregnant is mere sophistry.
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Rhino