I have been contributing to SD for about two months now, and I have to say that anyone coming here looking for science is going to be sadly disappointed. What I have seen is an old boys’ network of neckbeards and aspies jerking off to the worst sort of Mythbusters populism. Anyone who brings a fresh perspective to this vile den of basement-dwelling cretins is either ignored or mocked.
A typical thread for me goes like this:
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[li]I post something provocative – provocative not because it’s untrue or ridiculous, but because it falls outside the comfort zone of the myopic ass-burger turds whose knowledge of science seems to come entirely from Richard Dawkins and old episodes of Nova.[/li]
[li]Like a pack of retarded howler monkeys, the Usual Suspects burst out with a chorus of “CITE CITE CITE!!!”[/li]
[li]I spend several hours researching citations to support my claim. In the mean time, a half-dozen ass-burger clowns and other antisocial rejects have made drive-by mockings on the basis that maybe they’ll feel less inferior if they dogpile someone they believe is lower on the totem pole than them.[/li]
[li]I post my citations.[/li]
[li]At this point, either my citations are completely ignored and everyone pretends I don’t exist because their attention span is limited by the 20 second porn clips to which they have become accusted in their miserable, lonely lives, or they proclaims my citations to be worthless because those I am citing are not in agreement with their preconceptions.[/li]
[li]If I protest that science does not work this way, that it is the philosophy of pure empiricism and cannot make truth claims, I am told, and I quote, “Science cannot invoke an absolute truth in the matter; it can only point fingers and laugh.”[/li][/ul]
For people who conceit themselves to be the so much smarter than everyone else, you are some of the stupidest, most ignorant, and poorly-read dipshits I have yet to encounter anywhere on the Internet. Or off it, for that matter.
“I have only made but one prayer in my life: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.” – Voltaire
Wassa matter? Did you get bored with figuring out how pyramids are scientifically proven to be alien listening posts and not ways early civilizations stacked things really high in make work projects? You use the word “science” in a way that makes me think that you don’t know the meaning of the word. Science is a method of philosophy, not a variation of tinyurls.
Outta curiosity, how many science papers have you authored that have appeared in peer-reviewed publications? It’s one thing to talk big about your knowledge of science; it’s another thing to do it for real.
Thank you, you are a pefect example of the sort of mouthbreathing churl to which I was referring, who combines ignorance and unfounded arrogance in equal measure for a combination which is supremely annoying, like a pebble in one’s shoe. Are you really so stupid that you honestly believe archetypal psychology, post-modern critiques of material monism, and philosophical exploration of the links between shamanism and schizophrenia is the same as saying “aliens built the pyramids”? Or is it that questioning what you’ve decided to be immutable truth is so threatening to your justifiably shaky self-esteem that you must deliberatly conflate any view which falls outside your extremely limited experience with what you believe will be regarded as utter nonsense?
Heh, I read as far as where SmashtheState said Queen Elizabeth II was all motivated by greed and rage and lust and selfishness. She’s not exactly the first person I’d point to as an example of those qualities. Icke’s lizard sense might’ve been off on that one.
I’m disappointed–your rant against know-nothing wikipedians was, like, twice as long as this one.
Did it ever occur to you that when your interactions with two large online communities end with you writing angry rants against the members of those communities, that maybe the problem isn’t those communities?
As they say, the only thing all your failed relationships have in common is you.
Using more (and bigger) words to say stupid shit doesn’t make it any less stupid. Let me simplify the quote above. Instead of “and philosophical exploration of the links between shamanism and schizophrenia” just say “spirits talking to people”.
You’re a basket case dude. But you’re very entertaining, and for the most part it seems like you’re honest, so I like you.
Forgive me, but I was under the misapprehension that this board was created to encourage intelligent discussion and the relaying of facts. I do not recall it being a place to discourage others from posting here because they haven’t been published in peer-reviewed articles. If you held everyone on the Dope to that standard, many a poster would not be here. Perhaps you prefer this?
I, and many others, do not.
~S.P.I.~
[If I misunderstood your intentions Hunter Hawk, I apologise for being less than polite. Otherwise…]
It’s not that Smashy must necessarily have peer-reviewed articles in order to post here, it’s that he’s beating his chest going, “You fuckers don’t know science! I know science!” If he doesn’t have the credentials to back that up, then he’s just talking out of his ass as much as the rest of us.