Do they have any scientific evidence that Trump is not scientifically perfect in his views?
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Abyss of a new dark age?
“ But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”— W.S. Churchill.
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From my undergraduate years:
ex dy/dx
ex dx
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3.14159
Square root, cube root, BTU,
Slipstick, sliderule, YEA PURDUE!!!
It never caught on with the cheerleaders.
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I’m waiting for the Biden endorsement from Highlights magazine, because it’s clear that Trump thinks Goofus is the hero and Gallant is a loser.
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A precipice is a very steep rock face or cliff. When I drive up to the edge of the Grand Canyon, I’m driving over what is essentially level terrain. When I walk over to the edge, I am standing very close to a precipice. One more step and I fall into a very deep hole. So I don’t see it so much as an ascent during my lifetime prior to a potential drop. Oh, there have been technological marvels all right, but I’m still waiting for my flying car, and I really would like to warp to other star systems. Ain’t gonna happen.
On the other hand, one could say that humanity has been performing an ascent since the Renaissance, and there are some who are now trying to force us all to fall back into the abyss of the Dark Ages. I suppose one could go back even further to before Archimedes and Pharaoh as a starting point, but I think you catch my drift.
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It evens out. Trump has the “National Inquirer” and “Wrestling Confidential.”
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That is likely because within Idiocracy they had already passed well beyond the ominous atmosphere and idiots running everything everywhere had become normal and mundane. 
And electrolytes are good for you. Don’t drink toilet water.
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Our trumpy neighbor died last week from stomach cancer. He ignored his symptoms until they were really bad, got a diagnosis and then died within a couple weeks. He also hated the affordable care act, so it all works out. It may come as a surprise to these people that cancer and covid don’t care if you think The Lancet is a “lefty rag”.
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Or bleach.
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Due to the failure to identify Russian aircraft, claiming they are American jets on campaign literature, The Smithsonian Air & Space magazine has no choice but to endorse Biden.
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That really was a remarkable speech. For those interested in reading it, you can find it at https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/their-finest-hour.
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Perhaps you’d benefit from a change of perspective. Our daughter went on two separate month long kayak/raft trips through the Grand Canyon. She said it is very different looking up from the bottom.
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Most people who think MONEY is the only measuring stick, and obsess about it endlessly, are “quite wealthy”. They have no other distractions, and constantly think about their money, to the exclusion of all other things; Family, Love, Compassion, Happiness, Honesty, etc.
Many have used their academic success as a springboard into the upper-reaches of the Class-based Social Structure they desperately want to climb, and revealed that the academic success was just an end to a means.
Most are also desperately unhappy, as they constantly berate themselves for “not doing better” all the while sullenly envying those who have more monetary success (earned or inherited.)
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The endorsement by Scientific American just goes to show how brave Trump is to take on the powerful and lucrative fake science lobby. That is all they will take away from this – Trump has enemies everywhere, just like he has been saying all along.
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Biden’s campaign platform indicates he will “restore the role of legitimate science in policy making.”
In a nod to bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle to find common ground Biden also said he would consult with the ghost of Nancy Reagan’s astrologer.
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Being wealthy is like being and addict. You can never get enough money to be satisfied. It is truly a sickness.
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Except for the group that reads it backwards to decipher the Satanic messages…
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I can get paid for this?
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Check with the Koch Brothers, that is… the one that hasn’t croaked yet.
Good. And about time. It is just a popular ‘science’ magazine, but still, endorsing an obvious presidential choice is both good and overdue. They and others should have endorsed Gore and Kerry and Obama.
The SA editors:
“The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and science… [Biden will] restore the role of legitimate science in policy making.”
But you know, even if (in an alternate universe) Trump acknowledged climate change, for example, there is so much wrong with him – being a moronic and malignant narcissist – that SA should still weigh in and endorse Biden. It doesn’t have to be about science. This is important because down the road you could have a lousy Republican candidate who puts children in cages, for example, and doesn’t deny science but exploits it. Outlets like the SA should editorialize against such a monstrous candidate.
For too long too many scientists have liked to piously play “above the fray”. Many have their heads shoved so firmly up their pious arses that the idea of a scientific body, like, say, the American Physical Society, endorsing a presidential candidate is considered unseemly. Time’s up for that bullshit.
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One of the smartest people I ever met was a PLUMBER with no college education. An entirely self-taught computer genius who wrote machine-language printer drivers for FUN on weekends (and a hell’of’a shot with a Bow and Arrow, and he could drink any three people under the table at will.)
One of the stupidest people I ever met had two PHDs; Engineering and Math.
He could not walk and chew gum at the same time and was the most arrogant man I have ever met, insisting that we all call him “Doctor” not by his name, yet the simplest solution escaped him, and he could not figure out how a computer mouse worked (that was work for SECRETARIES he would sniff.)
Just a couple of anecdotes, as the majority of highly educated people I have met are quite smart, as are a large number of people who, due to circumstances outside their control, never got to get a higher education.
It’s all about what you DO with it.
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