considering how towelheaded sand n1gger ugly vaginas in burkas a common scenery on a beach. Jihaddists will ban you from sunbathing and offending their stupid retarded "culture". Thanks to obama.
You should not have fired the FBI Director, sir. It's not a good look.
They ridiculed him and thought asking doctors to wash hands was undignified. Even today's scientific institutions are not immune to that. Science is sometimes miserably wrong but self corrects in the long run, you could say the Church does the same.
Science has a built-in mechanism for correcting errors. Religion does not. Yes, the Church has moved on some issues, but very very slowly, and change is in no way certain.
In Science, self-correction is part of the process.
I generally agree. The reason I brought in the problems with ethics in science was because [at least in/.] I have observed the sentiment that we can trust scientists to do the right thing. Sort of proof by comparison.
I get you. I figure, we can trust scientists to do science. It's what people do with that science that has to be closely watched.
Regarding "fake science": I think there are enough scientists out there who would love to prove their colleagues wrong that they pretty much police themselves when it comes to weeding out the frauds. They didn't get PhDs and work for crappy wages just to have their profession sullied by flim-flam.
As far as ethical disasters like Tuskegee and Mengele, those need to be treated by society like any other atrocity. Think of the medical doctors and researchers who participated in torture during the Bush Administration.
Either he was afflicted by a weirdly impoverished imagination with respect to one particular thing (being burned to death) or he was a full-blown badass.
I've read a lot about Bruno. A Jesuit teacher in high school taught me his "memory palace" technique and it sustained me throughout grad school.
He was definitely a bad-ass. But extremely prickly when it came to people he thought were his intellectual inferiors, which included just about everyone.
My favorite part of the Bruno story is that the reason they arrested him is because he was found to be reading "indecent" material. See, he liked to read on the crapper, like most people, and he kept a copy of the poems of Erasmus near his toilet. Well, it fell behind something and when they searched his room they found the book and accused him of trying to hide it. He told them that if they just had looked on the bookshelf in his room, they'd have found another edition.
He was heretical on quite a few issues and if his only heresy would have been his scientific work, my guess would be that he would have lived a lot longer.
You're absolutely right. Bruno's greatest crime was that he was a huge pain in the ass and wouldn't take yes for an answer. Right up to the day of his one-man barbecue, the Vatican was trying to give him a way out. All he had to do was apologize and he would have lived. He basically told the Church to go screw themselves because he was one of those guys who didn't suffer fools gladly and knew (quite correctly) that he was the smartest guy in the room. Anybody who's ever worked in academia knows such people.
I mean, he'd already been excommunicated from three different religions (including one that he'd never joined).
This is a good reason not to ever trust any group of people. If you think well of scientists, look up Tuskegee syphilis experiment. For a wide scale corruption of science, look up Nazi Germany.
The Tuskegee experiments and Nazi Germany don't really represent scientists as a whole. You could say we have a lot more reason not to ever trust the Catholic Church (and religionists generally).
The originator of the Big Bang theory was in fact a Catholic priest, a Belgian I think,
Giordano Bruno was also a Catholic monk, who advanced the "infinite universe" theory, and got burned at the stake by the Vatican for his trouble.
I take your point, however. The Catholic Church has been pretty good on most science - up and down- but you've got to be careful, because if Science starts to suggest something that makes the Vatican too uncomfortable, they might get slapped down pretty hard. Though Benedict seems a decent sort in that regard. The pope before him would have gladly started burning witches and homosexuals again if he could. And the days of the Church controlling Western academia are long gone.
And how about if he fired a FBI director that has publicly said on at least three different occasions that he isn't under investigation for anything at all?
When Donald Trump claimed that Comey "has publicly said on at least three different occasions..." he apparently hadn't seen the news.
All three of those citations have links to video of Comey stating, in English, that Trump is indeed under investigation. If you need a Russian translation, we can probably find one for you.
Those damn scientists think they're so smart, with their highfalutin PhDs and science stuff. We need more straight-shooting regular people doing science.
A spokesman for EPA administrator Scott Pruitt confirmed that he's thinking of replacing the academics with industry experts
The President of Austria even suggested that the time is coming to force white women to wear headscarves to support Islam.
I'm not sure citing a President of Austria in regards to protecting the white race is a good look in Europe. Last time, it didn't work out so well for them.
I'm confused, the discussion was on weird sexual practices and you've replied with a bunch of random photographs that don't even qualify as sexual, let alone weird.
You don't think getting a lap dance from your teenaged daughter is a weird sexual practice? You need me to spell it out. OK.
Answer: its not... but you had to defend the liberals somehow.
Liberals aren't even part of this story. It's Trump's FCC responding to Trump's complaint about his mouth being called Vladimir Putin's cock-holster.
Trump is well-known for his thin skin when it comes to any criticism. Google "Trump thin skin" if you're not aware of this.
But the sweetest part of this entire story is how so many alt-right jackoffs who consider themselves "free speech absolutists" when it comes to calling someone a racial slur are suddenly crying for a critic of Donald Trump to be censored. You must admit, the irony is delicious.
If there were any documented weird sexual practices in Trump's past, as opposed to vulgar locker room bragging, it would have been shouted from the rooftops and a 24/7 news item during the campaign.
A fine is, er, fine, if his language is determined to be inappropriate, and as long as dissenting opinions are not offenses punishable by arrest, the republic stands.
If he doesn't pay the fine, he could be subject to arrest. A fine is not really morally different than arrest.
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You should not have fired the FBI Director, sir. It's not a good look.
I don't know that Asimov book. Thank you my friend. I'll find a copy right now.
Science has a built-in mechanism for correcting errors. Religion does not. Yes, the Church has moved on some issues, but very very slowly, and change is in no way certain.
In Science, self-correction is part of the process.
Comey was fired after asking for more resources to investigate Trump. He wanted more personnel for the investigation.
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Don't kid yourself. They're using draft horses because draft horses won't unionize.
I get you. I figure, we can trust scientists to do science. It's what people do with that science that has to be closely watched.
Regarding "fake science": I think there are enough scientists out there who would love to prove their colleagues wrong that they pretty much police themselves when it comes to weeding out the frauds. They didn't get PhDs and work for crappy wages just to have their profession sullied by flim-flam.
As far as ethical disasters like Tuskegee and Mengele, those need to be treated by society like any other atrocity. Think of the medical doctors and researchers who participated in torture during the Bush Administration.
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I've read a lot about Bruno. A Jesuit teacher in high school taught me his "memory palace" technique and it sustained me throughout grad school.
He was definitely a bad-ass. But extremely prickly when it came to people he thought were his intellectual inferiors, which included just about everyone.
My favorite part of the Bruno story is that the reason they arrested him is because he was found to be reading "indecent" material. See, he liked to read on the crapper, like most people, and he kept a copy of the poems of Erasmus near his toilet. Well, it fell behind something and when they searched his room they found the book and accused him of trying to hide it. He told them that if they just had looked on the bookshelf in his room, they'd have found another edition.
There's video of Comey saying Trump is under investigation. Forget the "bastions". Watch the words come out of the man's mouth.
You're absolutely right. Bruno's greatest crime was that he was a huge pain in the ass and wouldn't take yes for an answer. Right up to the day of his one-man barbecue, the Vatican was trying to give him a way out. All he had to do was apologize and he would have lived. He basically told the Church to go screw themselves because he was one of those guys who didn't suffer fools gladly and knew (quite correctly) that he was the smartest guy in the room. Anybody who's ever worked in academia knows such people.
I mean, he'd already been excommunicated from three different religions (including one that he'd never joined).
The Tuskegee experiments and Nazi Germany don't really represent scientists as a whole. You could say we have a lot more reason not to ever trust the Catholic Church (and religionists generally).
Giordano Bruno was also a Catholic monk, who advanced the "infinite universe" theory, and got burned at the stake by the Vatican for his trouble.
I take your point, however. The Catholic Church has been pretty good on most science - up and down- but you've got to be careful, because if Science starts to suggest something that makes the Vatican too uncomfortable, they might get slapped down pretty hard. Though Benedict seems a decent sort in that regard. The pope before him would have gladly started burning witches and homosexuals again if he could. And the days of the Church controlling Western academia are long gone.
When Donald Trump claimed that Comey "has publicly said on at least three different occasions..." he apparently hadn't seen the news.
https://www.theatlantic.com/po...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
All three of those citations have links to video of Comey stating, in English, that Trump is indeed under investigation. If you need a Russian translation, we can probably find one for you.
If Barack Obama had fired an FBI director who was investigating him for treason, Fox News would be arming themselves on national television.
I'm an average fucker at best.
Do you really think there are fewer venues in which you can give offense today than there were 50 years ago?
By the way, I fucked your mother in the ass.
Those damn scientists think they're so smart, with their highfalutin PhDs and science stuff. We need more straight-shooting regular people doing science.
OK, this shit ain't funny no more.
He also said Trumpcare was going to cover everyone.
I'm not sure citing a President of Austria in regards to protecting the white race is a good look in Europe. Last time, it didn't work out so well for them.
What kind of sleazy asshole would scam a veteran and think he could get away with it?
http://pacedm.com/2016/05/trum...
You don't think getting a lap dance from your teenaged daughter is a weird sexual practice? You need me to spell it out. OK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...
And there is most definitely no "collective intelligence".
All you have to do is read the news to see that.
I suspect...everyone.
Liberals aren't even part of this story. It's Trump's FCC responding to Trump's complaint about his mouth being called Vladimir Putin's cock-holster.
Trump is well-known for his thin skin when it comes to any criticism. Google "Trump thin skin" if you're not aware of this.
But the sweetest part of this entire story is how so many alt-right jackoffs who consider themselves "free speech absolutists" when it comes to calling someone a racial slur are suddenly crying for a critic of Donald Trump to be censored. You must admit, the irony is delicious.
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If he doesn't pay the fine, he could be subject to arrest. A fine is not really morally different than arrest.