Saturday, May 17, 2014

why do scientifically repudiated classifications continue to have force in the media, politics, and even science?


The garbage man pseudo-science propagandist Nicholas Wade was subsidized, promoted, and given a huge platform for 30 years as the "science" editor at the NYTimes. This is so strange when we consider just how awful and anti-scientific his core beliefs really are. A book length exposition of this nonsense should get him laughed off the mainstream stage. 

shara dev has done a wonderful job of succinctly dismantling race - yet his take down doesn't receive consideration beyond an infinitesimal scale...,

11 comments:

CNu said...

It's funny how teachers and rank amateurs feel entirely at ease debating this topic with someone who has direct and unfettered access to all the relevant data. You have no basis for disagreeing, you're just gassing out the side of your neck. The asswipes in tahnussy's echo chamber are teachers who feel under the gun. Their personal economic interests are conflicted - to say the least.

When everything is said and done, far more than 50-70% of the current teacher cadres are going to be displaced because there's no longer any need for the archaic 19th century system of "sage on the stage" instruction. It can be done so much better using mature, adaptive learning technology - supplemented by genuine subject matter expert facilitator-tutors. The ratio of tutors to tutee's is something on the order of 1 to 50 and I've witnessed as high as 1 to 100 with a real master of the technology.

I didn't argue in bad faith at all. I behaved myself admirably considering my level of disdain for oxygen thieves and the ignorant. It is not the principal's job to teach the teachers, rather, it's the principal's job to ensure that the teacher is effectively teaching the children. That's the part I agreed with. As for the principal working to develop the classroom effectiveness of struggling teachers, I wouldn't waste the cycles, An awful lot of people taking up space and damaging the prospects of innocent children never had any business setting foot in the classroom in the first place.

CNu said...

Buncha teachers and wannabe teachers and then the ringmaster tahnussy himself, a college dropout who couldn't cut it at Howard University for chrissakes. GTFOH with even pretending that ass clown is worthy of a significant platform from which to undertake the awesome challenges facing a serious and sincere black public intellectual. He has been set up to fail on a large scale and by extension - damage the legitimacy and credibility of a 21st century black intelligentsia.

CNu said...

As far as climate change goes, the military accepts it as fact and will double-down on its predatory full-spectrum disruption of every other living people and thing to ensure the continuing energy consumption and consequent creature comforts of the denialists. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/2014_Quadrennial_Defense_Review.pdf

Because at a rate of per capita energy consumption 16 times higher than a U.S. citizen, the military is itself the most profound energy addict - OF ALL TIME!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJVdTuXBteU

Vic78 said...

I get the impression that the "smart people" are having a party while everything outside is falling apart.

Tom said...

lol you spend more time telling me how I feel than my wife does.


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Fun fact: Submariner and Nomad are gone; Ken and BD are still here.

CNu said...

Sub and his brother are too high-profile in the real world for stuff to leak out of here and blowback. The brother's a professor at my daughter's college. (she's been forbidden from taking any worthless race studies chindribble - and so won't be meeting him)

Kind of like my man E.C. - before he shouldered all his real-world mantle. Nomad and I had a major falling out over at CDV's, but notice he stuck his head in here yesterday. I've only ever banned three serial trolls with real-world ill intentions directed toward me personally.

Other than that, I prefer a free fire zone.

CNu said...

Galt's Gulch is only a figment of their imaginations. They should have taken that lesson when they acquired the black books and black book makers of the 3rd Reich, and for damn sure after the first Soviet atom bomb...,

ken said...

Climate change is not up for debate at this point.

It appears you're not the only one who thinks that. Looks like the scientific integrity is maintaining a pretty consistent pattern.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2630023/Study-suggesting-global-warming-exaggerated-rejected-publication-respected-journal-helpful-climate-cause-claims-professor.html

Vic78 said...

Uhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/16/murdoch-media-hypes-lone-climate-denial-big-oil
http://ioppublishing.org/newsDetails/statement-from-iop-publishing-on-story-in-the-times

The hard headed never learn...
http://youtu.be/zKhEw7nD9C4

ken said...

If you have been wavering yourself at all with the hollowing out of the consensus along with their practices, just keep hanging on. The computer model predictions and what is actual, hasn't been, what's the IPCC word..."helpful", but take cheer somebody does have theory as to what the problem might be, there saying it might be the 30's before the models finally start looking accurate again as we get through this cycle.


http://www.futurity.org/warming-lull-due-climates-stadium-wave/



Between the lines of course, some of us hard headers might wonder if the oscillation had a part in deceiving us into thinking we are more of a factor than we really are.

Vic78 said...

Really, man? You really didn't get that Monty Python video. It's done. You have no idea how far behind you are.

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