One of the problems
with having any comprehension of what science is and what the scientific method entails, is the immediate recognition of bullshit when you see it. This isn’t what most would think of as a problem, but it prevents you from being able to watch stuff like “Cosmos” without the overwhelming desire to elvis the TV set.
If you didn’t expect this to be a Malthusian leftist propaganda piece, you should have been clued in by wingnuthead flapping his cocksocket by way of introduction to it. And the language, which was typically leftist: “Those trees from ancient forest became coal which both powers and imperils us” Sure, you monkey. In the way Oxygen imperils us. Our civilization is far more in danger from oxygen than it is from coal , but we have to point out that coal is icky and bad.
yes, it was slick and well produced. it is already full of scientific contradictions which anyone with a brain can see, and it is specifically designed and has been rewritten to pound home the already discredited message of anthropogenic climate change. Tyson is no dummy, scientifically, but he has also fallen into the trap of providing the answers his financial benefactors want to hear.
In a segment of the program he waxes nostalgic about his meeting with Sagan, and does everything but recollect the fondness with which he wiped off his chin after the meeting. The irony is not lost on me that that old commie Sagan bleated on about Climate Change in the original- but that bleating was about the Nuclear Winter we were all facing if we didn’t change our ways.
Damned fools. This- not walmartians- is why the race is doomed.
10 comments Og | Uncategorized
I think you touched all the bases today, except for explicitly calling out the megalomaniacs. I know, I know, you had to leave something for others to add. And I’d gladly do it, except I’m so tired of talking about them. And everything else is so messy.
I recall enjoying the original Cosmos when I was in High School, but of course then I was too ignorant to recognize bullshit when I was exposed to it. Some of the stuff in Cosmos was very good, some less so.
Sagan, like Tyson, was (probably) a very good astronomer/astrophysicist, and when speaking about that topic I tend to pay attention. Once outside of their area of expertise, less so. Just like I listen to Albert Einstein when he talks about physics, but less so when he discussed men’s fashion and hair styles.
It is what happens when the wolves gain full control.
I would attribute it to the sheep, but I don’t think they have enough ambition.
For the children.
I heard the O was on it.
That’s all I need to know.
Sagan pushed the notion of nukeyoular winter the way these new guys keep pushing AGW.
M
“Tyson is no dummy, scientifically, but he has also fallen into the trap of providing the answers his financial benefactors want to hear…”
This sentence, in a nutshell, is what ANYTHING in media is about. There is no independent thought or unbiased research. And that is no trap, but a conscious choice made to draw a paycheck.
If the media and all its various parts had ethics, told the truth and didn’t pander to all the PC BS, wouldn’t be much reason to blog, hmmm?
But who would front the money to hear the truth?
Media is no different than Politics – follow the money.
“If the media and all its various parts had ethics, told the truth and didn’t pander to all the PC BS, wouldn’t be much reason to blog, hmmm?”
I see you’re not a reader here. I mostly crapblog, with the occasional gun pron or asswhipping story.
Sorry Og, that I didn’t respond promptly. More heathcare fun with the wife at hospital for last 3 days.
As I have told other bloggers, I appreciate the fact that you devote the effort to saying anything, truthfully, to whatever audience wants to partake.
I may not agree with everything you say, but I respect and applaud your right to say it.
The fact that you say it with such enthusiasm and spunk is just the icing on the cake!
Are you sure you’re talking about this blog?
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