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Bad Science in the Press
An anonymous reader writes " An editorial in The Guardian presents a good run down of what is wrong with science reporting today and tries to point out why this is. From the article: 'Why is science in the media so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain wrong? Like a proper little Darwin, I've been collecting specimens, making careful observations, and now I'm ready to present my theory.'"
Like a proper little Darwin
Well there's a start to your bad science right there.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
more holier than thou, doom and gloom, america bashing bullshit
- holier than thou - yes
- doom and gloom - probably
- america bashing - quite definately
- bullshit... ????
No... I'm afraid he holds the Tao and you're grasping at straws. Look at the bible thumper you elected to lead you.
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
Astronomy is AWFUL at reporting their news.
Whenever there is an astronomy story, there is some staggering beautiful "artists concept" color painting right next to it, and that picture has no scientific backing for 99% of its features.
So try to pull a modern kid out in the back yard and put their eye to a telescope and they will barely belive you when you tell them that they look at, because it looks nothing like in the papers.
Astronomy is doing itself a major disservice by overselling their stuff with these fantasy pictures.
Poul-Henning
Poul-Henning Kamp -- FreeBSD since before it was called that...
What are you talking about? God made the earth and the universe. Then he made baby jesus. Then baby jesus died for our "evolution loving" sinful asses.
Also, little fairies make snowflakes up in the clouds with scissors and construction paper.
At least, that's what the new pages pasted over the old ones say in our science books (the ones with the "evolution is only a theory" stickers).
"I think Japan deserved it"
That is the prevalent idealogy of Nordic Christianity. Anyone who dares to challenge your innate belief in the racial superiority of the "Aryan Race" (as Japan did) deserves to be murdered en-masse and demonized. Your ignorant and hatemongering statements will only be believed by other Nordic Christians, not by thinking people who have actually studied real history. They know that Japan was the only Asian country to have challenged the white lords. In order to do that, they had to be a bit nasty sometimes, but that behavior was motivated by pragmaticism and a long-term view of achieving Asian solidarity and freedom from being killed by white people. In the final analysis, Japan cared (and still cares) more about the future prosperity of Asia than any European/American. Better an Asian country be ruled by fellow Asian people than by a bunch of tyrranical, arbitrary and murderous thugs that Europeans and Americans were and still are.
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
I haven't seen this movie, but I want to ask something: if the core was stopped by human action on the surface, why couldn't it be restarted by human action on the surface ? Why send anyone down there ?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
"Your source for that would be what? Your ass?"
No, it's based on an understanding of history that is not tainted by narrow parochialism or bywestern propaganda, and the anecdotal evidence I mentioned in my last post.
Why are you biting my head off anyway? I am not your enemy. I have no particular malice against you.
Nor do I favor my country in this matter. Bear in mind that India and the People's Republic went through a rather nasty border war, which we lost rather badly due to superior tactics and strategy on the part of the Chinese army. I am prepared to look above such petty and stupid disputes to realize that the People's Republic is more useful as an ally thanan enemy.
"Of course they were. And the Nazis were just liberating Ukraine from the Bolsheviks."
Not an analogous situation. Instead of attacking me personally, why don't you listen to what I have to say?
See here, the so called Third Reich was not just killing people. They had a detailed plan for the eradication ofentire civilizations. More than that, they planned to burn all records produced by them, destroy their art, poetry, literature, buildings, cities, and everything. They would have eradicated entire cultures from history. Had they succeeded, we would not even know that these people had existed in the past. The resultant damage to humanity as a species would be incalculable. Imagine a world without Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Gibbs, Feynman and others. Would you want to live in a world without their achievements? Would you want to live in a world that did not know Quantum Theory as we do today, and, consequently did not know how to make superconductors, semiconductor chips, lasers etc? Would you want to live in a world where we could not learn about Jewish history, and read Hebrew and Yiddish poetry, or understand Jewish philosophy, or whatever?
That would be unthinkable to me, and I'm not even Jewish.
However, the Japanese had no such plan to eradicate Chinese culture. They killed individual people as a means to control political resistance. That is a bad thing, but humans kill other humans. That is part of our nature as a species. It will always happen, and denying that is unproductive.
What the Japanese did not do (nor did they ever intend to do) was depopulate China. They did not have a "Final solution to the Chinese question". They were never interested in eradicating China from history. Believe me, if the British thought that China was a threat to them, they would have tried to do so. They have tried to do it elsewhere.
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
Where the hell are you from? Must be american with a comment like that. Ive yet to meet a person in europe who doesnt know what a plough is. Do you not learn about agricultural history in school? Most irish ppl like me know what a plough is from the moment were born =P
"The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing." - Arthur C. Clarke ~1980