A shot across the bow of the sage burners

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cali  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)        Thu May-21-09 03:37 AM
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Beng anti-science from a "left" perspective is really no different
   
than being anti-science from the right. The religious trappings are more extreme and there are more of them on the right, but refusing to deal honestly with scientific evidence, for whatever the reason, reflects a fundy type of mindset.

I expect to see this shit from those on the right. I'm always surprised and dismayed when I see it from the left. The case of the boy with Hodgkin's has illustrated that we have our own anti-science faction around here.

Could it be???


Wow...you mean they're willing to admit that if you think God is a fairytale, then sage burning and worshipping dead Indians must be, too?

joshcryer  (1000+ posts)      Thu May-21-09 03:59 AM
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3. Metaphysics, existentialism, alternative medicine, they're the lefts religion.
   
They lead down a slippery slope of irrationality. And it's not just one thing, it's many many things, that cover many different viewpoints. I see it in every discussion I partake in here. There's always someone who invokes these shallow ideologies to try to win points.

Don't think that the left is somehow immune from this. I have met the best scientists who have very conservative, hard line viewpoints, likewise I have met very agreeable liberals who have completely convoluted views of the universe.

Odin2005  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)       Thu May-21-09 06:37 AM
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17. Science has been denigrated by many on the Far Left since the 60s.
   
The Right has the religious nuts. The Left has Postmodernist clap-trap, pseudo-enviromentalist luddite romantics, and New Age BS. It's all part of a vicious assault on reason. In the minds of many on the Far Left "Science" is just another form of corporatist propaganda it seems. :eyes:

Maru Kitteh  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)      Thu May-21-09 07:35 AM
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29. Can I get an Amen? It is SHOCKING to see the amount of woo-woo anti-science bullcrap
   
that sometimes resides here. It makes me weep for the state of education in this country. It's this kind of ill-logical, irresponsible, indefensible, immature fantasy thinking that leads to situations like this where some woo-woo nutbag of a mother brainwashes her kid into sacrificing himself at the altar of insanity, complete with hocus-pocus herbs and snake oil.

Thanks for posting this Cali.

woo me with science  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu May-21-09 08:57 AM
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42. Please look at the numbers on the Astrology and Woo Forum here
   
and compare them to those of every other personal interest group. Only the cupcake lovers come in second, and a far second at that.

Stark and willful scientific ignorance knows no party. This place is infested with wide-eyed and sometimes belligerent Believers in past lives, repressed abuse memories, Indigo Children, crystals, homeopathy....You name it.

     WOW! Wonder why the Wiccans haven't started a jihad against Cali yet. Maybe they're cooking up a potion for him...the loogie of Al Gore...a pube of Nancy Pelosi...fingernail clippings of Noam Chomsky...etc.

     

[tuolumnejim]

Could it be???


Wow...you mean they're willing to admit that if you think God is a fairytale, then sage burning and worshipping dead Indians must be, too?


 


     WOW! Wonder why the Wiccans haven't started a jihad against Cali yet. Maybe they're cooking up a potion for him...the loogie of Al Gore...a pube of Nancy Pelosi...fingernail clippings of Noam Chomsky...etc.
     

Oh well I guess I didn't need lunch anyway. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Only the cupcake lovers come in second

Not entirely sure if this means the Cooking and Food forum, or the GLBTs....

 

[JohnnyReb]

     WOW! Wonder why the Wiccans haven't started a jihad against Cali yet. Maybe they're cooking up a potion for him...the loogie of Al Gore...a pube of Nancy Pelosi...fingernail clippings of Noam Chomsky...etc.
  

Now that's one powerful potion........it could destroy the world.