@oz_steinmetz
The best time to deal with climate change was the 1970s. The second best time was 1990s. Now? Now we’re just in it for the ride.
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Kudlow is a remarkably stupid man.
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Intersectional solidarity can deepen activist engagement, enhance and diversify recruitment efforts, and increase its impact on social and ecological change.
I think so too.
This difference suggests that science advocacy has deeper career consequences – both good and bad – among nonwhite scientists.
CRT?
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Willful ignorance and selective bias. The Kochs have a science foundation and fund sciency stuff on PBS while simultaneously astro-turfing anti-environmental and anti-science activism among the unwashed. Politicians push scientific breakthroughs that benefit big pharma and big-agro, while waging dis-information and green-washing campaigns against efforts to protect folks from the collateral damage.
Most of the people who are science skeptics are only science skeptics because people in power are spending big bucks to undermine critical thinking by convincing them that they already know everything they need to know. All the crazies in my family insist they know way more than doctors, climate scientists and the like. It’s turtles on ivermectin all the way down.
And yet, I continue to do environmental work, endangered-species assessments, and citizen-science education, march for science, work for my local land conservancies and long for the day when MMS stops giving the forces of darkness equal time.
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Next thing you know Biden will be encouraging people drink plant based wine.
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To think the guy was in charge of Federal economic strategy and is this stupid.
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Crazy talk! At least, you’ll never convince 6 of the justices on the Supreme Court.
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Doctors who write. Did not know all these writers were physicians, except one or two.
Not surprising though. Takes high intelligence to become a physician.
Writing ability is almost, but not quite, a substitute for an IQ test.
Not too long ago I learned that writing is one of the tests MI6 uses to evaluate spy candidates.
It is only one of many, but is heavily weighted. No surprise.
I’ve mentioned before that I had a class in an in-house company training course. They were all 12 with a 4yr degree in bus ad. (I did not hire them.)
I was stunned when I learned that all, but maybe 3 of them, were only semi-literate.
They could not write a simple business letter that did not read as if written by a high school freshman…
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Good for you. Your work will make a difference. Citizen-science information is useful part of the effort. And informing people so that they can make a call or write a letter in support of conservation is also very important. I tell people to set aside 10 minutes when they pay their monthly bills to write a short letter to someone in a position to do something. Most conservation organizations put out newsletters with information on current issues that can provide a few points to be included in letters.
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Will you retire your tires? The time will come when you will entirely retire the tires you are tired of.
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Yes, and we have seen a big difference in our lifetimes. But we still, all over the world, have massive disparities in equal opportunities in terms of income, education, and availability of resources for women, POC, and other important variables and abilities. And it seems to be getting worse, not better, right now.
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The GOP have been treating science like a joke long before the Trump era, appointing notoriously ignorant true believers to science and technology committees, etc. The public’s faith in scientific advancement has been headed in the wrong direction for years now, thanks to a million points of darkness in social media. Telling complete lies like saying hydroxychloroquine cures COVID has become a freedom of speech issue and the vitamin/supplement/magic sauce industry is growing by leaps and bounds because they are not regulated like actual prescription medicine. How many reading this post right now have unrealistic or false beliefs about GMOs, vitamin supplements or naturopathic remedies that are not even remotely science based but have become some sort of “common wisdom.” How many are taking excess vitamin C just in case it helps stop colds? Even the intelligent shows like Pod Save America have commercials for completely spurious nutrition products, and people like Bill Maher who are supposed to be skeptical buy into the anti GMO hysteria and anti-vax bullshit hook, line and sinker. Then we go all the way to the “Food Babe’s” advice which decries food that has “chemicals” in it, not understanding that everything we eat and drink is actually composed of the dreaded things called “chemicals”.
Seems like we all want to believe in a little magic - for some it is the great duck dynasty father in the sky, for others it is blue algae stuffed into capsules. For those who actually like a little science with their coffee, let me recommend a podcast called The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe. Now excuse me while I go take my wholly unnecessary multi-vitamin special addition senior mix.
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It’s tiring to consider tires : - )
But I hope something can be done soon. I understand the biggest problem with EV cars – in terms of maintenance – is they go through rubber, due to battery weight.
I’d be more worried about grounded-down, smelly, car rubber floating around than about any vaccine.
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My educated wife and her dumb fuck husband do the same.
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I am officially retired and I’m tiring of my torn tires tearing, so, I’m taking time to tackle these new tear-resistant treds and try them out on my Toyota. Toodaloo!
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In all the years of medical/clinical and applied research that I needed to write a consent form for, It was a requirement by the institutions I worked for to write the adult consent at a 5th grade reading level. That is not easy to do in medicine, since the words and procedures are pretty multi-syllabic, and long-winded, or complex. I used a lot of graphics, and sometimes had to make our own videos. I was often called (with some derision) “the protocol queen,” since our protocols had a high rate of being accepted without major revisions and re-submissions. 
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I’m afraid to ask who’s bringing the blood to do the
refreshing.
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Now that’s where I differ. I prefer cement based wines because of their gritty texture.
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