for some slices of science they think that anyone off the street has an opinion as valid as people who've spent their lives researching it
That's actually the crux of it. A couple of days ago I received a bulletin from WorldNutsDaily licking lips at the way Ann Coulter had been able to show dem idiot climatologists what's what. Really? Ann Coulter? A singularly ignorant political hack? Her views on climatology are weightier than those of tens of thousands of trained climatologists around the world? Our society hasd gotten itself into a sick and likely terminal condition when anybody could think for one moment that this might be so.
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for some slices of science they think that anyone off the street has an opinion as valid as people who've spent their lives researching it
That's actually the crux of it. A couple of days ago I received a bulletin from WorldNutsDaily licking lips at the way Ann Coulter had been able to show dem idiot climatologists what's what. Really? Ann Coulter? A singularly ignorant political hack? Her views on climatology are weightier than those of tens of thousands of trained climatologists around the world? Our society hasd gotten itself into a sick and likely terminal condition when anybody could think for one moment that this might be so.