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Georges S
Georges S
  Administrator
January 28, 2021 9:52 am

I think that in order to be a leftist (or a RINO) you got to be able to be flip-flopping a lot

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Georges S
January 28, 2021 10:08 am

It just takes the ability to lie at will, regardless of the argument.

Georges S
Georges S
  TN Patriot
January 28, 2021 10:58 am

Well I haven’t lied since I became single. Not that I was cheating on my wife or anything of sort, but she used to buy clothes that made her look very fat (which she wasn’t). In the beginning I was telling the truth in form of something like : Honey with that dress your butt make the Appalachian mountain look like small hills. And then I would sleep on couch for a month or so. So I started to lie.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Georges S
January 28, 2021 2:51 pm

Sometimes telling a lie is being smart, but progressives and most politicians do it as a way of life.

Stucky
Stucky
January 28, 2021 10:30 am

I liked the comment someone made in the twitter link —- “So now single-maskers are the new anti-maskers?”

SeeBee
SeeBee
January 28, 2021 11:53 am

Can’t be said enough…Fauci= FAUXi

gatsby1219
gatsby1219
January 28, 2021 2:15 pm

Fauci = Jesuit

gilberts
gilberts
January 29, 2021 12:18 am

Does anyone pine for the days when science was about verifiable, reproducible facts and not politics? How long til’ we start revoking planets because racists and sexists and bigots and whites discovered them all? We could also throw out the calendar and the names of the months because it’s all whiteness and hatred.

Stucky
Stucky
  gilberts
January 29, 2021 8:46 am

“Does anyone pine for the days when science was about verifiable, reproducible facts and not politics?”

Exactly WHEN did those good old days happen, gilberts?

Scientists are HUMAN. That means they come to the table with biases, preconceived solutions, …. and venom for those who disagree with their findings. The name-calling and pure vitriol amongst competing scientific views is a sight to behold …. as contentious as a religious debate, which makes sense, since most scientists view their craft as The Only True Religion.

Then there’s confirmation bias, selection bias, sampling bias, testing bias …. and a host of other biases that plague all humans. Scientists are not immune to any of this. In fact, the article link below states that no scientist is immune from “philosophical bias”. They write;

“These are basic implicit assumptions in science about how the world is (ontology), what we can know about it (epistemology), or how science ought to be practiced (norms).”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415937/

As a quick example, let’s look at The Evil Corona Virus. Scientists have identified more than 2,000 human genes linked to COVID-19. A research team at Northwestern University analyzed over 10,000 studies. Of the 2,000+ genes associated with Covid only 611 were included in the studies. And of that three genes accounted for 25% of the total research! This is good unbiased “science”???

And then there’s this HUGE bias against Christians;

“Although Christians make up approximately 75% of the American public, only about 30% of academic scientists identify as Christian, making Christians one of the most underrepresented groups in science.”

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226826

This is disconcerting. Biases affect outcome. A scientist with erroneous biases … “Evolution is a fact/ God id dead!” … will inevitably produce erroneous findings, in part or in total.

So …. sadly, for me, in this Everything Is Fake World, I no longer even trust science … well, at least not as blindly as I used to do. Holding science and scientists in high regard without rigorous vetting (and who has time and expertise for that?) is done so only to your own detriment.

brian
brian
  Stucky
January 29, 2021 9:33 am

“Although Christians make up approximately 75% of the American public, only about 30% of academic scientists identify as Christian, making Christians one of the most underrepresented groups in science.”

And even this is questionable. MANY scientists will not declare their religious affiliation because of the hostilities they would suffer from their colleagues. They can lose their tenure, secular jobs and research funding if they openly declare who they are, cancelled.

Plus, they can lose their ability to publish their findings in journals which the left always uses to discredit them. The left says the Christians don’t publish in peer reviewed journals so they are not real scientists, then go on to mock them. The strawman is that the journal gate keepers will not publish their work, period, regardless of quality. Its their way of eliminating debate and censorship, its publish or perish. And yes there are other journals where they do publish and IS peer reviewed.

There have been studies that have shown that two thirds of papers submitted for review, especially in the medical research field, are either outright fraudulent, contain gross errors or methodology was incompetent. So yes the scientific community is rife with political malfeasance and always has been.

1 Tim 6: 20 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and [a]idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge (science)