A public opinion poll showed Americans' trust in science and scientists reached a record low, with a majority saying they had "little trust" or "no trust" in scientific institutions.
A majority of Americans also believe in a deity that will hook them up with a winning lottery ticket if they just pray hard enough.
I would say that when it comes to science, the opinions of scientists is a little bit more useful than the opinions of people who talk to pollsters.
This isn't anything new. There is a very long history of companies doing this. Leaded gasoline, CFCs, smoking, acid rain. I've seen this movie many times.
And nobody has shown in any way that taxing consumers Trillions of dollars to enrich the elites running the credit trading schemes
The entire carbon credit market is $30 billion dollars. And the whole idea of such credits is that they are NOT a tax on consumers, but something to be traded by capitalists. Clean companies will sell them and dirty companies have to buy them. Where does the "tax on consumers" come in again?
The way to counter speech that you disagree with, is not censorship, but MORE SPEECH.
That's exactly what happened here. If you read the summary, you'll see that the climate scientists wrote a letter. I'm pretty sure a letter is considered speech.
Milton Friedman is one of those evil people that covers up his evil with the cloak of university
As maybe the only Slashdot user who has actually taken a class from Milton Friedman, I feel obliged to say that I don't think he was an evil man, just a True Believer. The policies that have come from his writing have been disastrous, even evil, but he was just a zealot.
[I was a 17 yr old UofC undergrad and it was a lecture course with over 100 people in it, so I didn't really know him. He taught some interesting stuff, but he also taught me that Economics is basically Parapsychology with wingtips.]
The SPLC literally gives a free pass to actual literal commits-hate-crimes criminals as long as they either bribe the SPLC or act under the right banner
That's Glenn Beck stuff. I'm surprised you actually believe it.
Last month, researchers at Ohio State University announced they'd created a "a nearly complete human brain in a dish that equals the brain maturity of a 5-week-old fetus."
In other news, the brain has announced its candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, and is currently polling at 21% of likely voters.
And jews are less than 2% of the population but make up 60% of religiously motivated hate crimes, a vastly more disproportionate gap.
And what percentage of those are perpetrated by neo-nazis, christian evangelical religionists and white supremacists?
I think you've just made my point.
Of the 1,223 victims of anti-religious hate crimes: 60.3 percent were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders' anti-Jewish bias. 13.7 percent were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias. 6.1 percent were victims of anti-Catholic bias.
There was clearly a need to send to send a message, and the White House, MIT, NASA etc sent it: Not all of America is made up of hateful bigots.
There were 784 active hate groups in the United States in 2014, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The number of such groups surged in response to President Barack Obama's election and the economic downturn — growing from 888 in 2008 to 1,007 in 2012 — before falling to 939 a year later and then the lowest level since 2005, according to Mark Potok, who tracks extremist groups for the SPLC.
"Those numbers may be somewhat deceiving," Potok wrote in the SPLC's "The Year in Hate and Extremism" report. "More than half of the decline in hate groups was of Ku Klux Klan chapters, and many of those have apparently gone underground, ending public communications, rather than disbanding."
I also think he didn't deserve to be glorified and cast as a heroic genius with all this acclaim in the media, as the new evidence suggests.
He was "glorified" as a way of apologizing. An apology that was well-deserved.
Don't be so bloody-minded as to not see that Ahmed was a proxy for the insane racism in this country and a mentality of security theater hysteria that is destroying people's lives.
Ahmed wasn't invited to MIT or the White House because of the clock he made. He was invited to the White House and MIT to let regular Muslims know that not everyone in this country is a fucking racist yokel or thick-fingered vulgarian like Donald Trump (who said yesterday that he was "looking into" sending all Muslims back to where they came from if he became president). It's an acknowledgement of our collective shame.
And give the kid a break. He seems like a decent sort who didn't ask for any of this bullshit.
I'd let it go if it were only once. But not only does he repeat the mistake, but there are commenters who just assumed he was right and made the same error.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Not even remotely comparable. Malware is unauthorized use of a person's computer. A much closer comparison would be blaming the beer manufacturers for drunk driving or fetal alcohol syndrome.
Yes, but only if the beer manufacturers spent hundreds of billions of dollars making sure that pregnant women think that getting drunk while pregnant is 100% safe.
A much closer comparison would be the tobacco industry.
Have you ever been to OWS and such? Meatspace is very much about hashtag activism these days, unfortunately.
It always has been. Slogans have always been part of political activism. They've found the same political graffiti in several places in pre-Christian Europe.
Just because it's given a new name, "hashtag" doesn't mean it's something new. I'll bet there were plenty of dilettante colonials who were saying "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" when there were no British within earshot.
It's not a new thing. Some people are Martin Luther King or Ghandi who will go to jail or starve themselves for a cause, and some people are Sarah Palin, who stands fast on the issues until she chips a nail or her gravy train gets stalled.
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A majority of Americans also believe in a deity that will hook them up with a winning lottery ticket if they just pray hard enough.
I would say that when it comes to science, the opinions of scientists is a little bit more useful than the opinions of people who talk to pollsters.
Hydraulic fracturing, nuclear waste disposal, "clean coal".
There will never be a shortage of companies who will gladly throw a baby off a bridge for a dollar.
The entire carbon credit market is $30 billion dollars. And the whole idea of such credits is that they are NOT a tax on consumers, but something to be traded by capitalists. Clean companies will sell them and dirty companies have to buy them. Where does the "tax on consumers" come in again?
That's exactly what happened here. If you read the summary, you'll see that the climate scientists wrote a letter. I'm pretty sure a letter is considered speech.
I think you just gave us the answer.
You have no idea.
So, they take off and land on water? I didn't realize the Concorde was amphibious.
As maybe the only Slashdot user who has actually taken a class from Milton Friedman, I feel obliged to say that I don't think he was an evil man, just a True Believer. The policies that have come from his writing have been disastrous, even evil, but he was just a zealot.
[I was a 17 yr old UofC undergrad and it was a lecture course with over 100 people in it, so I didn't really know him. He taught some interesting stuff, but he also taught me that Economics is basically Parapsychology with wingtips.]
I'm OK with a bunch of wealthy "enthusiasts" going up in a death trap on their own dime. Just don't let them fly over populated areas.
That's Glenn Beck stuff. I'm surprised you actually believe it.
In other news, the brain has announced its candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, and is currently polling at 21% of likely voters.
And what percentage of those are perpetrated by neo-nazis, christian evangelical religionists and white supremacists?
I think you've just made my point.
There was clearly a need to send to send a message, and the White House, MIT, NASA etc sent it: Not all of America is made up of hateful bigots.
Mr Trump, don't you have better things to be doing with your time than commenting on Slashdot?
You would be surprised at how little of the food my family buys is wrapped in plastic.
Anti-muslim hate crimes make up 11% of our religiously motivated hate crimes, but they make up 0.8% of our population.
And yes, that's a decimal place before the "8".
He was "glorified" as a way of apologizing. An apology that was well-deserved.
Don't be so bloody-minded as to not see that Ahmed was a proxy for the insane racism in this country and a mentality of security theater hysteria that is destroying people's lives.
Ahmed wasn't invited to MIT or the White House because of the clock he made. He was invited to the White House and MIT to let regular Muslims know that not everyone in this country is a fucking racist yokel or thick-fingered vulgarian like Donald Trump (who said yesterday that he was "looking into" sending all Muslims back to where they came from if he became president). It's an acknowledgement of our collective shame.
And give the kid a break. He seems like a decent sort who didn't ask for any of this bullshit.
I'd let it go if it were only once. But not only does he repeat the mistake, but there are commenters who just assumed he was right and made the same error.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
I have a ghost writer.
That's weird. Every time I get a hard-on, it rains. Some people have a trick knee.
Not bullshit. As of March: http://www.teslamotors.com/mod...
Yep.
Yes, but only if the beer manufacturers spent hundreds of billions of dollars making sure that pregnant women think that getting drunk while pregnant is 100% safe.
A much closer comparison would be the tobacco industry.
And the real criminals are not people who design malware, it's the people who use computers.
It always has been. Slogans have always been part of political activism. They've found the same political graffiti in several places in pre-Christian Europe.
Just because it's given a new name, "hashtag" doesn't mean it's something new. I'll bet there were plenty of dilettante colonials who were saying "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" when there were no British within earshot.
It's not a new thing. Some people are Martin Luther King or Ghandi who will go to jail or starve themselves for a cause, and some people are Sarah Palin, who stands fast on the issues until she chips a nail or her gravy train gets stalled.
Or, we could start a kickstarter campaign to teach Lasrick how to spell "millennial".