“You're not allowed science any more”
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“You're not allowed science any more”
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#2"You're not allowed sarcastic metaphors any more."
"Why not?" asked the scientist.
"Because you haven't learned to employ them in a way that doesn't alienate the very people you are trying to help. Now please send in Dawkins on the way out, we need to discuss internet memes with him."
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#3I have spotted this totalitarian streak among some of my friends who went to med school. We should ban smoking, force everyone to do this or that. As bad as they can be, we're probably better off with lawyers in charge.
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#5"You're not allowed sarcastic metaphors any more." "Why not?" asked the scientist. "Because you haven't learned to employ them in a way that doesn't alienate the very people you are trying to help. Now please send in Dawkins on the way out, we need to discuss internet memes with him."
The sarcastic metaphor and the exasperation that motivates it comes after centuries of scientists being ridiculed, persecuted, and even killed by ignorant people.
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You're being reductive, The refusal to read the pamplet while demanding impossible assurances is symbolic of the willfull idiocy of the scientific illiterate making impossible demands on society.
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#7I feel this way about non-technical management calling the shots on software projects :)
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#8"You're not allowed sarcastic metaphors any more." "Why not?" asked the scientist. "Because you haven't learned to employ them in a way that doesn't alienate the very people you are trying to help. Now please send in Dawkins on the way out, we need to discuss internet memes with him."
You're right, but you're wrong.
You're right - we shouldn't celebrate alienating people who need help.
You're wrong, because there is no argument that can convince someone who doesn't care about evidence.
So, please forgive us our gallows humor about this. After all, these people are content in risking the health of MY child on their Jenny McCarthy-inspired HUNCH that vaccines are bad.
If anti-vaccine folks were only risking the health of their own children, their anti-science stance (or selective-science stance) would be tolerable. As it is, they're a menace.
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#9"You're not allowed sarcastic metaphors any more." "Why not?" asked the scientist. "Because you haven't learned to employ them in a way that doesn't alienate the very people you are trying to help. Now please send in Dawkins on the way out, we need to discuss internet memes with him."
The sarcastic metaphor and the exasperation that motivates it comes after centuries of scientists being ridiculed, persecuted, and even killed by ignorant people.
That isn't limited to Scientists my friend.
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