Anti-Intellectualism: Don't you just hate it?

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somekindarobot

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So I was in my Geology class today and we discussed this article (http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/08/28/nitrous-oxide-fingered-as-monster-ozone-slayer.html) about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration nitrous oxide being a potential cause for ozone depletion. What really burned my toast was some of the comments, such as:

"I thought caring about the ozone layer went out of fashion since the invention of global cooling...er, warming...sorry, climate change. Nature creates more CFC's than mankind does. A volcano releases more CFC's into the atmosphere than mankind has ever produced in its history.

This stuff is fake. Fake, fake, fake. It's a bunch of envriomental Nazis who want to tell you how to live (notice that the supposed global cooling AND global warming were both caused by bad old fossil fuels). They overstate, obfuscate, and outright lie to make you believe that we can "save" the Earth only by living like it was the 19th century."

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"Once again NOAA staff using too much of a sample gas in the lab and trying to find an excuse. The real question is, Was the reporter inhaling?"

What the hell is with all the assholes thinking they know better than a bunch of professional research scientists? Do they think that they just make up stuff for shits and giggles? I can tell you the one you thinks CFCs, a synthetic chemical that is in no way found in the environment, comes from volcanoes is certainly no expert. Y'know, it's times like these a technocracy ran by scientists looks pretty good.
 

RagnorakTres

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A technocracy has always sounded good, dude. ALWAYS. If we geeks ruled the world, there would probably be fewer wars and much more focus on development of non-military technology. As it is, yeah, you're gonna find idiots like that all over the place.

Also, I was confused for a bit there, might want to put the comments in quote boxes. The tags (if you don't know already) are [*quote]yourtexthere[*/quote] minus the asterisks.

EDIT: Also, broken link on the article.
 

pantsoffdanceoff

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It's the only way to say [i/]fuck you[/i] to someone who probably makes 4 more digits than you. Intelligence will never be "cool" because that would mean intellect would have to be seen with popular people.
[i/]No fucking way[/i].
 

Pandalisk

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They want to push their agenda, and to push an agenda you dont need to be right, you need to be loud
 

Pipotchi

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RagnorakTres said:
A technocracy has always sounded good, dude. ALWAYS. If we geeks ruled the world, there would probably be fewer wars and much more focus on development of non-military technology. As it is, yeah, you're gonna find idiots like that all over the place.

Also, I was confused for a bit there, might want to put the comments in quote boxes. The tags (if you don't know already) are [*quote]yourtexthere[*/quote] minus the asterisks.

EDIT: Also, broken link on the article.
In a technocracy we would only be having sex once every seven years though. For some of of you this will mean a lot less sex but for the technocrats a lot lot more :)
 

Erana

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Wow... They don't even realize that the 19th century was an absolutely terrible time for the environment, too.
 

PurpleRain

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I agree. I've gotten sick of people arguing against something good like this. So much money has been put into war research and power, and finally we have something that can change the planet we live on, whether you want to believe it or not, make some progress. Why do people act like dicks because they can't be arsed planting a tree? It seems they have found an excuse not to by going against the scientists and act lazy about it.
 

somekindarobot

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Erana said:
Wow... They don't even realize that the 19th century was an absolutely terrible time for the environment, too.
I'll give him this though, 19th century technology again will mean one thing: STEAMPUNK! WOOT!
 

ArcWinter

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That makes no sense. What do those comments mean? Apparently cognitive dissonance does not exist or the commenter's heads would implode.
 

Emphraim

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A person can be smart. People however, are generally dumb creatures with a tendency to follow what they know.

I love the second comment where the idiot said scientists want us to live as we did in the 19th century, not knowing apparently that since the 1700s humans have produced huge amounts of CO2.
 

clicketycrack

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Don't worry about other people. Society will break down in about twenty years anyway. But really though, everybody is going to think that they know better than everybody else whether they think so on purpose or not. You seem to think that you know better than these people.
 

somekindarobot

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Emphraim said:
A person can be smart. People however, are generally dumb creatures with a tendency to follow what they know.
That's the problem. This is (two) A person, and yet they're still stupid. I just don't get the reasoning of these people. What could we possibly do to make people trust scientists again? Wait, that's it!



Fuck yeah!
 

The Kangaroo

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RagnorakTres said:
A technocracy has always sounded good, dude. ALWAYS. If we geeks ruled the world, there would probably be fewer wars and much more focus on development of non-military technology. As it is, yeah, you're gonna find idiots like that all over the place.
so what your saying is "YEAH W00T!!! KILL ALL DUMB PEOPLE!!!"
[small]reductio adumsurdum at it's work but I completely agree with you[/small]
 

Aardvark

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If you were really smart, you'd use trickery and subterfuge to channel that ignorance towards your own diabolical ends.
 

El Poncho

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Hmm I guess i'm able to send my Dara'O'Briain link again, someone liked it last time so why not again?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIaV8swc-fo&feature=related

Enjoy:)
 

RetiarySword

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This kind of thing really rubs me the wrong way. People who don't research a subject before commenting are generally idiots with mouths bigger than brains.
 

RagnorakTres

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Eoin Livingston said:
RagnorakTres said:
A technocracy has always sounded good, dude. ALWAYS. If we geeks ruled the world, there would probably be fewer wars and much more focus on development of non-military technology. As it is, yeah, you're gonna find idiots like that all over the place.
so what your saying is "YEAH W00T!!! KILL ALL DUMB PEOPLE!!!"
[small]reductio adumsurdum at it's work but I completely agree with you[/small]
Yeah. Totally. Genocide rules. `_`

I really hope that was sarcasm.

Then again, in my perfect world, all the dumb people have died already because society doesn't protect them...YAY SEMI-ANARCHISTIC TECHNOCRACY!!
 

Zombie_Fish

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I never like it when people try to act smart by using long and interesting words yet actually know fuck all about what they're saying. Every time I see a thread saying that Global Warming is fake they always think that Ozone is some miracular layer that will stop Global Warming, that is depleted by Carbon Dioxide created by nature blah blah blah. Why should their voice be listened to, acknowledged and accepted if it is absolutly wrong and can actually be proven wrong with facts?

Do the research and then I'll care about what you have to say.