If bill nye and 96 other scientists were able to be one side of the stage, while the other side is made of 3 denialists, then the public can get a good feel for what the scientific consensus is.
The reason that Bill Nye and others stopped doing these sorts of controversial debates is because they are never set up that way. You have one climate scientist on one side, and a denialist on the other, giving the impression that both are similarly supported viewpoints.
It does nothing at all to further the cause of education, and just gives the denialists a platform from which to preach their lies.
Anyone who thinks that the evolution debate can be shut down by the “If we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?” will side with the denialists simpler explanation, than the real one which is more complicated.
We really need to find better creatures to describe Cheetoh. Monkeys and chimpanzees are much higher on the evolutionary scale. I propose we use toe fungus or plague virus or maybe bot fly. Though the way Cheetoh is going, soon those descriptors will seem too good.
If you can find a way to gently get a denialist, or a creationist (same mentality, mostly the same individuals too) to reconsider his assumptions, or even get him to recognize that they’re assumptions and dogma but not fact-based, you’ve won a major, major battle. Nye does have that talent, while most of us are simply too impatient and can look haughty and dismissive to Believers instead. That lets them dismiss us.
I don’t follow Nye very closely (I really dislike his new show), so do you have an example of a time when he actually got someone he was debating to do any of this?
You mean somebody who would actually admit they realized that one of the basic tenets of their religion was wrong? Not directly, no; I’m just giving him credit for planting some seeds.
The pick to head the FDIC asked to withdraw his name from consideration due to family issues. No word on whether the family with which he has issues is his own or Trump’s.
On Fark, they seem to have settled into calling him “Donnie Two Scoops” for the most part. Since Donald Jr. has been in the news a lot in the last few days, he’s “Donnie Half Scoop”.
You guys act like Trump hasn’t done anything good. But if you check Breitbart news, you will find that in less than six months as President, he has already designed, built, tested, and is ready to commission a brand new aircraft carrier.
Question: has any American president ever before gone over to France to celebrate Bastille Day?
I’m wondering because it seems, I don’t know, odd.
Sure would be a convenient time for a major “terrorist” attack to level DC, though. Take out Mueller and the entire Congress. The Dear Rat Lungworm would be forced to declare martial law, suspend the 1st Amendment, etc.—for the good of America.
