But don’t worry. Being good and right and scientific and all, we can fix it:
A whole slew of new “research” on conservatives’ and global warming skeptics’ “brains” has hit the academic circuit.
First off, environment and sociology Prof. Kari Norgaard’s new study claims skeptics of man-made global warming fears should be “treated” for their skepticism. The study compares skepticism to man-made climate fears to the struggle against racism and slavery.
Prof. Norgaard’s concept of “treating” those who do not follow the current day’s political or social orthodoxy is, frighteningly, not new. A quick look at the 20th century totalitarian super states reveals many similar impulses.
It’s even more chilling that there is a whole new movement afoot by the promoters of man-made global warming theory to intimidate climate skeptics by using new brain “research.”
Other researchers have attempted to tie conservatism (which is identified with the highest number of climate skeptics) to “low brainpower.”
Some global warming promoters claim it is essentially “unethical” to be a skeptic.
Finally, still other climate activists have actually implied that we need to consider “human engineering” to combat global warming.
NYU Prof. S. Matthew Liao of Center for Bioethics says his human engineering solution “involves the biomedical modification of humans to make them better at mitigating climate change'”
Now, I realize it may be tempting simply to laugh all this off. After all, on the surface, these “studies” represent rank quackery of the most obvious and politically-motivated kind. But the scary fact is, these zealots are completely serious in their wild-eyed craziness, and they hold the manufactured consensus view within the institutions they’ve overtaken. Meaning, they can determine what “truth” is — and consequently, what comes to count as “scientific” heresy deserving either of excommunication or something more grievous, performed in the name of the greater good.
As we’ve seen from Stanley Fish, craziness disguised as consensus truths, when used in the service of your own de facto goodness — you are a liberal and therefore moral and right, so it follows that morality and righteousness attach to you, and you need not therefore apologize for what it is you do in furtherance of those laudable ends — is not, to the modern progressive, “craziness” at all: after all, one man’s eliminationist fantasy is another man’s Great Leap Forward / ethnic “cleansing”!
And so, while what we’re witnessing is certainly surreal and absurd, we should be wary of this persistent attempt by political leftists to try redefining — and reifying — their ideological desires as bedrock scientific “fact” (facts being, in the progressive world of anti-foundationalism, nothing more than an assertions backed by manufactured consensus + power).
Because, well, I hate to say it, but never again.
The more they open their mouths, the more they will be exposed for what they are to people who ordinarily would never hear this stuff. You used to have to buy books by David Horowitz to get these kinds of stories. Now, they get exposure of the kind they don’t like: critics telling the truth about them and their odious, Stalinesque attitude towards their ideological enemies, permanently posted on the internet for all to see.
Keep talking lefty. Thanks for the bags of ammo.
It is unusual to see the calls for the reeducation camps so blatantly stated. Who knew they might include genetic engineering?
<River Tam> “Miranda…” </River Tam>
That last link is buggy, Jeff.
Ha! Some leftist named Donald Brown crediting skeptics with a proper claim to inventiveness, creating a “new kind” of assault? Oh, wait . . . the “skeptics” of the title aren’t real skeptics of any sort, says the leftist professor, but simple liars lying (And what’s “new” about that?).
Gah! What’s the world coming to next — redefining human beings out of existence through the practical application of physical science? Hey, IG Farben, we’ve got this little volume problem we were hoping you could help us solve?
Should be fixed, SW, thanks.
Remember the fact – value distinction, and how science was said to be incapable of latching on to values at all? This example is one very fine instance crashing the distinction to pieces. There’s simply no such thing (hint: the fact-value distinction created by science is a value to start with! Hilarious, right?).
Well no, hilarious doesn’t begin to cover it. Deadly is more accurate.
The upper crust of science-wielding LeftLibProggdom is fabricated of well-concealed misanthropy. Al Gore, for instance, thinks that there’s just too damned many humans on ‘his’ Gaia, and that the numbers of the dirty beasts must be diminished. Of course he’s crazy, but not crazy enough to actually come out and directly speak that. So, you’re getting more of these trial balloons sent up, couched in the prose of SCIENCE!.
But believe this: they of that mindset would like nothing less than to see 2/3 to 3/4 of the planet’s population handily discarded.
Lysenkoism 2.0.
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She was confirmed to the Court. By people desperate to tick off identity politics boxes on their life’s “Morality Bingo” cards.
We’ve been poisoned.
“Here’s why:
1. It’s illegal.”
Right, sure, that’s got to be the primary explanation. Because it’s so easy to imagine a physician turning away a patient in danger of imminent death. Has nothing to do with human sympathy or ordinary ethical behavior. It’s the law.
She was confirmed to the Court. By people desperate to tick off identity politics boxes on their life’s “Morality Bingo” cards.
Nominated by a President elected the same way.
We’ve been poisoned.
Time for a cure.
“2. Morality and the patient-doctor relationship
3. The legal risks of selfish, short-sighted decisions are enormous.”
We’ve been poisoned.
Time for a cure.
mittens 2012: at least he’s not a communist!
How does one become a professor of Environmental Sociology(?) at Whitman College(?)? It almost sounds like a position that was specifically designed to prevent people from laughing at William Yelverton when he tells people what he does for a living.
Punchline: Kari Marie Norgaard is at the same university that hired Deb Frisch. What IS it with that school and batshiite crazy professors?
http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/norgaard.php
Ah. U of O. I must have looked at an old CV. She seems perfect for Eugene.
Could you pass the “eugenics” Ms. Sanger?
As for these, “re-engineer humans not to fuck, fight, en devour, have kids, eat beef, breathe in and out, be free, or exist at all”…I’d channel my inner Steyn.
If a randomly selected group of 100 American geezers, spending up a $bajillion bucks of entitlements have just 40 grand kids between all of them (and knowing what we know about the current state of education, and all those “foot stamping” skill less, lazy, petulant, “we’re entitled” cry babies), who thinks those 40 grand kids will be able to pay the bar tab for their 100 grand parents?
So as things stand I’d imagine that it is okay to genetically modify people so that they believe in global warming and have five o’clock shadows that match the hair color above their vaginas, but God forbid Sub-Saharan Africans plant crops that are modified to be drought resistant. Seems perfectly sane to me.
Sotomayor.
Look, you guys are all racist.
Next mandate?
Each of you will have a “wise Latina” you must consult on everything.
Sorry, but you were born in America, and, therefore, immediately a part of “unique markets”.
LYBD, I prefer the inner Malcolm Reynolds:
On the plus side, if the Left were winning the war of ideas, they wouldn’t need to coerce people into leftist orthodoxy, would they?
When right-thinking depends on the elimination of wrongthink, how right can it be?
I know this stuff is hard, and there is no guarantee we will win, but there are reasons why these people are not running everything already, and don’t control the narrative more than they do.
I think it’s possible to see the flaws in this nation’s founding, and still see the genius in what it created in the ability to rise up against tyranny in all its forms. I’m not a wide-eyed optimist by any means, but I do see the righteous anger at all this nincompoopery in this country to be reason to be hopeful that we will weather this storm, as we have others in our past.
SDN,
You & McGehee don’t start that shit, or we’ll go all day.
One of my good friends (and co-workers) was talking about our (now shitty) fixed annuity rates (of which our annuitants can take 10%/ yr at no penalty), and my buddy does Jayne’s voice and busts out with..
Ten percent of nuthin’ is…let me do the math here…nuthin’ into nuthin’…carry the nuthin’…
I was the only one that got it, and about fell out of my chair laughing.
Assertions not subject to falsification such as those advanced by the warmists are more rightly consigned to the realm of religion than that of actual science. After all their main argument is “because I said so” just like your friendly neighborhood vicar. No corroborating evidence whatever just take on faith what they say is true.
At least Jesus has a few witnesses to his exploits. The only witnesses to anthropogenic global warming have been caught fabricating their “gospel” by manipulating and massaging data that in the raw does not support their hypothesis.
At least with real religion they are honest about you having to have faith
Holy shite. My mind went to Mal and the guys immediately too. Only it was Wash’s, “Reavers. They made them.” Also don’t forget another so called bioethics journal published an article recently which pondered what they called “post-birth abortions”. It seems we aren’t really human until about three or so, so what’s the big deal? And JeffG is exactly right. That we’re at a point where these folks are talking openly and seriously (again – over 60 years later) about this stuff should scare the begeezus out of everyone.
Aren’t these “scientists” working backward from a conclusion and penciling in the results that fit their conclusion?
That’s not the way I learned to construct experiments.
“Now, I realize it may be tempting simply to laugh all this off. “
Tempting?
And then look at this picture without giggling I will tip my hat to you, sir.
http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/norgaard.php
the face of proggtardism
Testing the new! mobile site view, courtesy Wapple. But, so far, sans a login screen…
She should be treated for her lack of respect for democratic opposition and her stupid hysteria about a scientific system that does not so far ever predict any real events accurately.
She is a delusional grandiose paranoid with narcissistic monomaniacal tendencies. She thinks she is saving the planet from people who disagree with her and who have no right to disagree with her and imagines that she can save people from disagreeing with her. She is sick and cannot function in society without appearing ridiculous and intolerant.
Tell us what you really think, palaeomerus.
[shrug] it’s done all the time in the social “sciences” so I don’t understand your concern [sniff]
ahhhh, this is soothing. And, challenging the new mobile thinger…
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/hurt-was-week-was-obama-style/#contentShared-tab
[shrug] it’s done all the time in the social “sciences” so I don’t understand your concern [sniff]
You forgot to sneer in there, Ernst.
The make-work social sciences have about reached the end of their useful lives and are desperately trying to remain relevant before they come in to work on a Monday one week in the not too distant future and find their offices packed up, their phones disconnected and the locks changed.
Religious historians refer to it as “prophecy historicised”
When you fill in unknown blanks with what “must” have happened to fit your narrative. It is also happening in the Trayvon Martin story. Zimmermand “must” have chased down and shot an innocent because that is the way it is supposed to happen.
Religious historians refer to it as “prophecy historicised”
Isn’t that a fancy way of saying “We’re makin’ this shit up as we go”?
The make-work social sciences have about reached the end of their useful lives and are desperately trying to remain relevant before they come in to work on a Monday one week in the not too distant future and find their offices packed up, their phones disconnected and the locks changed.
And then Tuesday they get a job at NASA on our dime.
(I don’t have a proper sneer face, so I’m just giving it the “stink eye”.)
They’ll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we’re very very lucky, they’ll do it in that order.
OWS as Reavers. That’s just about perfect.
Thanks for that RickC.
Lamont, if they were capable of seeing the handwriting on the wall, they’d beat it back to studying Penology or the behavior of students who live in co-ed dorms. They would have a built in convenience sample and could predict away, publishing and hoping not to perish.
Moe, you better trade mark that one.
Barack Obama: Prophecy Historicised, a future novel by the ghost of Tom Wolfe.
Introduction penned by Zombie Reagan.
I think the social sciences were mainly invented to track all the people freaking out in the wake of the industrial revolution. Once that stuff blew over and suburbs and urban centers started to seem normal and institutions were created to deal with boring repetitive labor it all became a lot less important.
I often think that the only useful functional theory of sociology is that currently exercised by advertisers and PR firms to somehow get YOUR PRODUCT noticed more than it used to be.
Well they tell you: Never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious.
Emile Durkheim is considered the father of Sociology and he did indeed study industry, but is also a favorite of those who study religion. A very prolific writer and researcher, his works are still used today and are favorites of a number of those in the priesthood who are university professors.
I believe you meant to say Auguste Comte.
[sneer]
No, I didn’t. But thanks. [smooch]
Just thought I’d demonstrate why I didn’t sneer when I shrugged and sniffed,
But yes, you did. Whether you know it or not.
If I hear that phrase “unique market” again, I’m going to scream.
Why is ‘heathcare’ unique in a way FOOD is NOT?
Indeed, food is much more important than medicine because we need to eat EVERYday, while most of us can go years with nary a reason to see a doctor other than for a check-up.
Considering the ‘entitled to run your life’ mentalities of Bloomberg and FLOTUS in wanting to control our diets, what would keep such authoritarians from Government take over of the food supply, from farm to grocery store?
Shut up, Darleen.
Shut up, and eat your HHS approved peas.
Also, the IRS will be contacting you shortly.
Cripes, you’re a wet blanket, Ernst. I was just teasing you, ya dockel.
This re engineer humanity crap smacks of the “useless eaters” label used by various regimes throughout history.
Funny thing, all of the academic elites would quickly find out just who is a “useless eater” if Western Civilization collapsed.
And you think I’m not?
Pot,
Kettle.
For such educated people, these fools are easily overlooking some very basic and important facts. For them, I offer a refresher: http://ammo.net/obama
Come and get it, bitches.
Oh, good lord. Just got to BMoe’s link to the pic of this monster and I burst out laughing. Couldn’t help myself.
I think she should work on a fix to her own self, is what that picture tells me. And fast.
Another fine product of the University of Oregon, aka MTSU-Western.
Ill go to the reeducation camp if it is at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur.
Nude hot springs, good vegetarian food (!! WTF!!), batshit crazies teaching utter nonsense like therapeutic artistic expression for gay, lesbian and trangenedered.
I was there for a week once and managed not to guffaw in class… the only drawback was the scheduling. Some gay mens workshop was going on for a couple of days that cocked up the sunset at the hot tubs so I went running up Highway 1 instead…
Hmmm. Doubtful the camp will be there. Hey!. The restored the Manzanar Internment Camp where they put the Japanese out in the desert (it gets 110) so it is probably ready to convert.
“Close Guantanamo… Open Manzanar!”
Ha!
OK so it should read: “they restored the Manzanar…”
whatever. Everyone here is smart enough to figure it out, but just in case that douche from Tennessee is lurking while fondling his pus sack I thought I’d throw him a (y)… and a fuck you
Pablo, great link. I may just have altered those stats a smidgeon today.
Ain’t this a great country!
Is it just me, or is that thing hideous? Not that the WP one was much better, but that had an “Exit mobile edition” link. Blech.
The National Association for Legal Gun Defense wants to contribute $10,000 toward George Zimmerman’s legal expenses, a member said today.
It’s a country you don’t want to fuck with, Red. Yamomoto was reported to have figured that out, but some say he didn’t. Regardless, somebody said it and they weren’t wrong.
Yep, the greatest country. Just stay the hell off my lawn. Or else. :)
I was recently discussing a 1911 I’d been eyballing with my local gunmonger and I asked him if there was any good reason I ought to consider something else. His reply was “Because you can’t get anything else.” Me: “So that’s a ‘no’ then?” Him: “Yup. Can’t keep ’em in stock. See how this case is full of revolvers? I had to put something in there.”
I’m starting to take a shine to my neighbors.
Pablo — the Springfield XD-S intrigues me, but I suspect they won’t be available until after the election’s decided.
Oh, and here’s the organization mentioned in newrouter’s link. I’ve not heard of them — anyone?
another pic of scary kari
She really is an unfortunate looking woman. Almost…special.
I think I’d rather get a Glock 21 or even a Taurus 24/7 OSS in .45 ACP than a 1911. An old fashioned single stack is not the way I’d want to go.
Paleo — my preferred gun is my Springfield XD compact in .45. My only complaint about the compact is that the full-capacity magazine pinches my hand where it joins the grip. I want an XD-S because it’s more concealable while sticking with .45. I figure the XD-S to carry, the XD-C to keep in the get-home bag.
Pablo will just have to load his magazines ahead of time Paleomerus,
like Bruce Willis did that time he played Toshiro Mifune.
(That’s who David Carradine was playing too, Marc, if you’re still lurking, but I bet the only thing you remember is the chick with the four tits.
Or was it six?)
Holy shite, NR! Not sure I can do a brain wipe after seeing that 2d pic. I’d surely want her to stay off my lawn.
Pablo, I believe Ruger is not accepting any new orders because they have such a huge backlog.
I’ve got my eye on one of these: Link
I’m going to try and pick one up later this year.
I love the 1911. For whatever reason I find the 1911 to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing firearms every built.
STI also builds double stack 1911’s. However, they’re not California compliant.
My every day carry gun is a 1911. Work horse of a pistol and very reliable.
My problem with all other semi auto pistols is the trigger. Here you’ve got a sleek and modern pistol that is a departure from the revolver, yet retains a trigger design that looks a leftover from the early days of revolvers.
Pablo, I was visiting my favorite Retailer of Death (TM) today (I seem to visit a lot lately). Asked if there was a recent uptick in business. Said, Nope, it hasn’t slowed since 2008.
Anyway, single-stack, double stack, .45, .40, 9 mm, revolver, whatever you feel good with. That’s another thing I love about this country – Diversity!
oregon is the beaver state. kari could take on wood with those choppers.
The best part of Yojimbo is when the ronin is asked his name he looks out and sees a nearby a mulberry orchard and says his name is ” Sanjuro Kuwabatake” which means “30 year old guy near a Mulberry orchard”.
THAT IS SO COOL!
Akira Kurosawa said he based his film on a blend of the Glass Key and Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammet.
Of course Clint Eastwood did his own version of it in ‘A Fist Full of Dollars’.
Oh, and the stripper that frog tongued Kain (the wandering warrior priest of Fumn) unconscious at a feast on the planet Ura was quad-knockered.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Warrior_and_the_sorceressposter.jpg
Before that unfortunate boating accident, I had a Taurus 1911 in stainless and a Colt Gold Cup 1911. There’s something about the 1911 that appeals to me strongly.
Saw a story over at Ace on this piece.
Blake, thanks for doing the brain re-set with the STI pic. John Moses Browning (PBUH) set the standard. The 1911 is top of my list. Junior, too. Can’t hit shit with a Glock in 9 mm but dials it in with old slab-sides.
I never saw the Warrior and the Sorceress, so that means it must not have seen much release. It’s definitely the kind of movie I used to see all the time.
I have seen A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing (Willis version), and probably a good chunk of Yojimbo. Good stuff.
I saw the Warrior and the Sorceress when I rented it on VHS from a Safeway back when that was a thing. I think I rented it along with with D.A.R.Y.L.
If you’re going to get it might as well get the 4-pak.
Oh, good lord. Just got to BMoe’s link to the pic of this monster and I burst out laughing. Couldn’t help myself.
I’m imagining her standing up to lecture and all that comes out is “herp de derp de derp de hurr”.
That’s about how much weight I will give anyone who proposes mandatory eugenics in an argument.
I may have also rented a carpet steamer that day. I’m not sure.
Just be warned that the Warrior and the Sorceress has a scene where a nude woman is drowned in a glass houdini tank to entertain the guests at a luncheon hosted by one of the two warlords who controls the town’s well. (Not the fat pimpish one but the armored fighty one).
I guess the “joke” was supposed to be that they gave her a lot of water which would normally be a good thing but ironically she couldn’t enjoy it since there was no air. Or something. Anyway it was it was a gruesome scene that you wouldn’t want the young ones to see. Unless it was the mid eighties.
There was also a lot of rather pointless titty dancing going on when the well was opened to the public for a short while.
Most of the fight scenes are pretty awful, but that’s typical of Corman movies.
Personally I thought it was slightly better than Ator the Fighting Eagle(if you ignore the awful’ giant spider coming around the corner’ scene and the “it’s okay Ator, you can marry your sister because you’re actually adopted” part) but not as good as ‘the Beast Master’. It was about the same as the Sword and the Sorcerer (a poor counter-program movie to Conan the Barbarian that even includes a crucifixion scene). The Sword and Sorcerer had a three bladed sword that could shoot off two of the blades like a ballistic knife.
Death Stalker has a woman who runs around nude with a hooded cloak and a barbarian who pretty much rescues women from peril and then grabs their boobs and tries to guilt them into having sex with him. I never saw the sequel.
I suspect that a lot of this crap in on Netflix.
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About the 1911 vs. Glock.
Say what you will about the cheesy sword gimic, at least Lee Horsely could act.
When Glock has a century under it’s belt, then I’ll pay attention.
Thanks for the video, Pablo. I’ve shot a Glock 17 and it shot pretty well. Still an ugly gun, though.
You’re more than welcome, Red. I think the cocking serrations on the STI USPSA are a work of art, along with the rest of the pistol.
Since the wife doesn’t like Clint Eastwood, I think I’m going to go watch John Sturgis pretend to be Kurosawa now.
That’s the one wear Horst Bucholz got to play Mifune, by the way, but he wasn’t very good at it.
Probably Sturgis’s fault though.
She looks like she was in an accident or something. I’m actually sympathetic if that is the case… however if that is a genetic flaw? hmmmm.
Orthognathic surgery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTpllmuKmSE
This is expensive, so maybe people like that should be dispatched in a climate friendly way.
I don’t care if she’s uncool or ugly. There are plenty of decent smart ugly people who behave in a manner that does them credit.
I care that she wants cops and psychiatrists to win her shitty failed arguments for her especially when her arguments are largely disproved pseudoscientific authoritarian bullshit perpetrated by dishonest people who trying to whip up a path to serfdom for everyone else via end of the world hysteria that is guaranteed to make us all poorer and more miserable in the short run.
When some puffed up leftist goggle wearing twerp wants to to take everyone but the chosen few back to 1820 so they can have a little more space at the mall and on the roads and they want to use pseudo mental health science to shut up anyone who opposes them then THAT is when I get angry.
And of course, these “brilliant forward thinking” jackasses don’t seem to realize that rather than leading society they are merely riding its wave. Without those teaming masses and their collective riches no one will be working hard to service their needs and desires and that means that technology and resources will backslide. Without a huge demand for manufactured goods driving R&D and production THEY’LL be seeing their own fortunes collapse until they end up relatively poor as their stuff wears out since no one else will be producing more stuff for them and they are too thick to figure out high end modern engineering and manufacturing for themselves. So they’ll end up wearing better home spun than anyone else but stuff like aramid, aerogel, and gore-tex will be a thing of the past. They will be lost treasures of a golden age that died when confused idiots listened to their chicken little nonsense and followed them into a luddite hell. A green earth is the kind of cholera riddled stupidity demanded by the most ignorant and clueless souls who ever lived, all so they could think that they were special and important.
A big part of my second psychology class was studying the validity of tests. It was the one class where the professor was open to the idea of his test question being fucked up by misdirecting me to a wrong answer that is really right within the wrong place the bad question took me. Heh. He always running experiments. Multiple overlapping experiments. Heavy use of teacher assistants. Lots and lots of post graduates doing things that required volunteers. Nobody I knew did volunteer, this was CU Denver, we were all busy. But those things were going on all the time and the whole idea, I think, was to publish publish publish publish publish. I think. So there you go. What in the would would be worth studying? The most pressing issues of course. Getting at the source of this irrational resistance would be foremost, don’t you think?
These red dots bother me. The word Auraria gets red dots under it.
The most pressing issues, bour3? Like a cure for cancer, maybe? This article (via Ace) should tell you what’s really going on. And it’s nauseating.
Remember folks! People who are more scientifically literate, demanding, skeptical, and rigorous than you who don’t reflexively slave everything to their(your) left wing politics are sick in the head and need help (restraint, sedation, possibly violent corrective coercion) from some delusional apparatchik mob posing as “the authorities”. It’s the only way to save the earth from the booger man.
palaeomerus, I think you’re conflating different kinds of sciences and their disciplines in your argument. For instance sociology is not psychology and is not about mental health. Sociology is the study of groups and the ways in which they behave. Psychology is the study of human behavior, divorced from the group. Though to be fair, there is a branch of psychology called social psychology that is useful for studying work place habits and family dynamics.
bour3, your college, indeed any college, is not allowed to study you without your informed consent, as if you were a rat in a maze. That professor was not acting in an ethical manner and should have been disciplined by the Dean of his department. Informed consent, signed by you, is needed in any kind of experiment like the one you described. Professors love to use college students since they are a a convenience sample, it’s also the reason why there are so many studies of prisoners; they’re not going anywhere.
Anyway, sociologists and psychologists have a number of points of agreement, but many more of disagreement, with each department generally hold the other in contempt.
Leigh, I don’t recall stating or suggesting that sociology is about mental health or that it is a form of psychology.
I did state that social science seemed to have it’s heyday studying population stresses during the early transitional part of the industrial revolution.
I have mentioned issues of psychology twice, once in regards to Norgaard’s diagnosis of climate change skepticism as a mental disease that should be treated, and again to suggest that her determination that people who disagree with her climate views must be mentally ill is itself pathological and represents a flight from reality.
I did not conflate psychology and sociology into a single field at any point. I am really not sure how you reached the conclusion that I had.
The primary argument I made about pseudo-science refers to AGW “science” where one uses flawed non-predictive computer models, ignores phenomena that discredit the models, cherry picks and statistically massages historical data, employs a biased journal review process, and uses international research funding paid for by political groups to establish a supposed scientific consensus that AGW is a real and an immanent danger to life on earth necessitating adoption of hard authoritarian political measures.
I just misread you then. Sorry.
Speaking of cheesy movies, paleo, ever see Hawk the Slayer? I admit, I wouldn’t mind having the repeating autoloading crossbow….
Teaching Areas
environmental sociology
environmental justice
climate chage
But, apparently not “attention to detail”.
palaeomerus dude, thats a first class rant. So right on.
Yeah, I’d say I was misread. She is a sociologist but she proposes that AGW is treatable mental illness in her study. That is an example of her proposing the use of pseudo mental health science for purposes of political intimidation regardless of her actual training and qualifications.
She talks like an old school commie. Dissenters are “mentally ill” people needing treatment.
Wasn’t there a Professor or maybe better put, a Lecturer that proposed conservatives be led out into the woods and composted?
That’d be thoughtful if true.
Conservatives would all become fertilizer.
Just got back from Mass, so sorry for the tardy reply.
I’d say the good “perfessor” is just plain old full of it and overstepping her field of expertise (whatever that may be since she has everything but organic cooking in her CV). I see arguments on both sides of the political spectrum as to which (them other guys) side is suffering from a mental disorder. Check out the comments on most rightosphere blogs where sooner or later someone will chime in that liberalism is a mental disorder.
People are allowed to hold stupid opinions, this is still America. The choice as to whether they get to inflict their opinions on others is ours.
The liberalism is a mental disease comments are (mostly) tongue in cheek and I haven’t seen any one suggesting “cures”.
The cure thing is what I find most threatening.
This quote was at Ace’s. Pretty good. Professor Donkey Smile might want to pay attention.
Dr. Ray Stantz (Ghostbuster): “Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything! You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results.”
To believe in progressivism, you have to believe that human beings are basically good, but the circumstances surrounding them can make them bad. If it weren’t for weapons, no one would murder anyone else, for instance.
I would think that level of denial might rise to mental illness.
OT, naturally: I just saw that NJ has some idiotic new “sexting law”. Naturally, as a Kind and Benevolent State, the first offense won’t result in hard time in the slammer, merely an ‘educational program’ of some sort.
And will also, presumably, affect your parents credit rating, to borrow a line from FZ.
It’s unclear from the article exactly why a “popular trend” needs to be a concern of the State in the first place. And they’d probably look at me funny if I asked them that.
I mean, it’s perfectly legal for teenage girls to show teenage boys their girly-bits live and in-person, but taking a picture of same and sending it is somehow a Criminal Offense, potentially jail-worthy for repeat offenders?
The lunatics are running the asylum, which I suppose is only fair; they outnumber us, it seems.
To believe in progressivism, you have to believe that human beings are basically good, but the circumstances surrounding them can make them bad.
Sounds suspiciously like that Anne Frank quote in her diary before she got marched off to the showers, doesn’t it?
Not that the difference makes all that much difference, but I think Anne is believed to have died of untreated disease in Bergen-Belsen, and not gassing.