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Someone called "Anonymous" has just left a comment to my entry here which for some reason I can't get the LJ software to unscreen. Here is the comment in full:
Having read CORRUPTED SCIENCE, and in the light of the exposure of global warming as a HOAX, I want to know if you will be publishing a CORRUPTED SCIENCE II to expose the real corruption. This is the most agregious case of scientific corruption in human history.
And here is my mild-as-milquetoast voice-of-sweet-reason reply:
Only someone of extraordinary stupidity and complete scientific illiteracy would think that global warming has been shown to be "a HOAX" -- someone of stupidity, illiteracy, and an infantile desire to choose to listen only to what you regard as the more comforting of the stories coming your way. Does it ever cross your excessively tiny mind to wonder who's responsible for the lies you're so eager to believe?
You are very wise to remain anonymous. Because of the activities of halfwitted or corrupt AGW deniers such as yourself, there's a very good chance there won't be very much of the human species in just a few decades' time. Frankly, I don't give a monkey's fuck if your life is cut short by this disaster, but I do very much care about my daughter's future well-being. Anyone who threatens it has a very angry me to contend with. Got that?
Now go crawl back into your pit of ignorance, you idiotic little turd.
Oh, and learn to spell "egregious" while you're about it.
When Thog lose patience, patience know it been lost . . .
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seriously though, I wonder why some people are willing to believe in science when it comes to getting in an airplane, or on a bridge, having their teeth fixed, or with their air conditioning, but 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. i don't know personally that global warming isn't a hoax, because i'm not a geologist, but I'm not going to argue with a physicist that nucleosynthesis actually produces bananas and peppermint biscuits because I read on the back of a matchbook that it does.
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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.
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Seriously, MTV's Made tells us you can become a martial artist, ballet dancer, or a basketball player in six weeks. The Biggest Loser tells us a lifetime of bad habits can be melted away in 6 months.
So, obviously anyone can be anything if they just work on it for a little while.
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So, obviously anyone can be anything if they just work on it for a little while.
The problem is that these buffoons don't seem willing to put in even the "little while". They gawk at FAUX News for an evening, listen to various dunderheads regurgitating Exxon's falsehoods, and believe that qualifies them to pronounce on a subject of which they know absolutely nothing.
It's a nightmare, really. The views of that drunken loudmouth bore everyone avoids in the pub are supposed to carry equal weight with those of the people whose area of expertise this is. I remember reading a science fiction way back in my teens where this was the case, and it was regarded as a dystopian satire; it never occurred to me I'd see it come into reality -- I assumed, naive fool as I am, that human beings would have too much good sense.