In Sovyet Russia, Internet Wastes Its Time on You!
Had lunch with a coupla Birthers. They asked if the restaurant had any food. The waiter showed them the menu, but they insisted on seeing the original. These things can be easily forged, after all
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And the differencing between "no" and an actual f'real argument is one of the most essential pieces of curriculum I teach...and when I get elected Emperor (and immediately abolish elections) it'll be mandatory in all classrooms.
The world contains facts, objectively solid facts, and years of research consistently finds that the Fox News audience knows far less of even the most objective facts (like "who's the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?") than any other media demographic. Reasoning allows us to turn those facts into further knowledge, although we as a species don't have a great track record as reasoners, so there's much to be said for letting a class of individuals do a lot of our more complicated reasoning for us, especially if they're required to do so under conditions of maximum transparency. They were RIGHT about innoculations, and the mob was wrong. They were RIGHT about purifying our drinking water, and antiseptics, and essentially right about antibiotics, and they were right about heliocentrism, and lots of other stuff, and the mob was wrong. Not because the mob is The Great Unwashed, or because vaccinations are part of a government scheme, but because Science Is Real and it Works. And the best part of it all is, Real Science means stuff anyone in the Mob really could replicate; it doesn't all take place in diabolical laboratories high in the Carpathians, although very few of us can afford our own supercolliders and electron microscopes.
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