Why the Right Wing Rejects Science

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  1. XploreR

    XploreR Well-Known Member

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    Your example of Miguel Estrada does nothing to counter my post. McConnell was authoritarian in the WAY he handled Obama's Garland nomination to the Supreme Court. The Constitution says it's the job of the Senate to consider & approve or disapprove a Presidential nominee. I don't regard opposition to a nominee as authoritarian, but McConnell used the personal power of his office to refuse to consider Garland. Garland never even got an interview, much less a committee hearing or Senatorial vote. McConnell didn't use the system, he abused the system and the Constitution to single-handedly kill any discussion or consideration of Garland as a nominee. Miguel Estrada, on the other hand, was given consideration and discussion by the Judicial Committee of the Senate. The opposition won that debate, but there was a debate. Garland never got a debate, because McConnell never allowed one. That WAS authoritarian behavior.
     
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    It's not a Straw Man, it's a fact, and a fact that you cannot refute.

    This Inter-Glacial Period is the coldest on record.
     
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    Your strawman is a non sequitur response to the point regarding the RW rejecting the use of computer experiments. Furthermore you have provided zero substantiation for your allegation.
     
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    Simulations, and based on faulty models at that, are not experiments.
     
  5. Bowerbird

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    Bullshit!

    Have you ANY validation for that claim?

    This claim is made in the face of evidence if "snowball earth"
     
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    Errr no!

    On the back of a government subsidy in SA the old Holden factory which had been closed for years is now producing household batteries
     
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  7. AFM

    AFM Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Another lieftie completely hoodwinked by the Chinese. On the back of a government subsidy ??? Too funny.
     
  8. Bowerbird

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    Isn't the Chinese investing in this

    Think if you started a factory like this in Chicago...........

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    Oops! Didn't Trump increase the PV tariffs??
     
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  9. AFM

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    And they are selling it to the west. It’s part of their 100 year plan to control the global economy. Wake up.
     
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    112 pages of pure BS
     
  11. Liberty Monkey

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    Parts of the US are hitting the same wall Europe has where renewables have hit a wall. Without energy storage the amount of energy we waste has massively increased since we implemented renewables. It has to do with how the base load is generated.

    PV panels are made in very similar ways to microchips what the US should have done originally is mandated that panels were manufactured in the US to be elligible for funding.

    New builds should have large insulated hot water tanks for energy storage and smart meters so the power stations have somewhere to dump the excess power that's being wasted. Lithium batteries should not be considered for grid storage ignore Elon Musk he's a retard. Grid storage needs to be cheap and readily available chemicals weight is a non issue. Molten salt looks promising both as a battery and a heat storage medium.

    Personally where possible I think we should all build earth houses.
     
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    Wrong!

    It is possible to learn even from poorly constructed experiments and the lesson is how to construct better and more accurate experiments.

    Early computer model experiments tended to lack sufficient variables. Nowadays the models are much more sophisticated and produce more accurate results.

    That is how science works. Better information gleaned from subsequent knowledge and experiments replaces what was previously known.

    The process is ongoing but it appears as though the RW is still stuck on the FALLACIES of the past which is why they erroneously reject science for the wrong reasons.
     
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    Don't blame me that you can not figure out that calling someone a "human cell" - does not mean that cell is a living human. You are the one perverting scientific method and perverting the English language.
     
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    There have been experiments done in relation to certain aspects of climate science. Your "all they have done is computer simulations" claim is simply not true.
     
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  15. AFM

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    It’s very simple. Human life begins at conception. Abortion terminates a human life.
     
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    Where have these experiments been done ??
     
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    Repeating a claim over and over - while ignoring evidence to the contrary and denying basic logic - does not make a claim true.
     
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    In laboratories.
     
  19. AFM

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    Proving it wrong will make it wrong. Providing one instance in which a human life did not begin at conception will prove it wrong.
     
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    Exactly - and what evidence is there that the lab results under controlled conditions applies to the chaotic real world.
     
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    More fallacious gibberish. Not being able to prove the moon around Pluto is not made of green cheese - does not make that claim true.

    That said: animate does not come from inanimate. Human life must exist prior to conception in order for conception to happen.
     
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    Plenty. Its called the scientific method - something which you continuously proof you know nothing about.
     
  23. AFM

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    So you cannot (nor can anyone else) prove the fact that human life begins at conception and that abortion terminates a human life.
     
  24. AFM

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    Too funny. Extrapolating from a "test tube" to the planet is not the scientific method.
     
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    A fact does not need to be proven - that is what makes it a "fact". Since you have not proven your claim "human life begins at conception" - calling it a fact is logical fallacy.
     

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