Another Collision Between Science and Politics

[warren]

He may be a racist, but I know for a fact that Mexicans evolved as really bad drivers.

Come to think of it, though, it may not have anything to do with evolution...it could have something to do with driving a 15 year old Corolla with the mini spare on the front left wheel and the rear bumper duck taped together.

Damn, I love coming back to this think tank and shooting fish in a barrel. Once again, Avacado Michelle has nothing to offer intellectually so he tosses up a thinly veiled racist comment that he can always come back and say "I'm a card carrying pussy who loves all mankind and that was just a joke everyone in Cen-Cal will get."

Bring something to the table bitch or just get your "I T" ass to the back of the cubicle.

The man didn't make a racist statement, he just plain said people who, for whatever reason, be it geographically, politically, evironmentally, may not make it in Mikey's world.

I mean would you have an Aboriginal writing cryptic code for the CIA. Well, now that I think about it, they probably couldn't do any worse.

I damn sure'd give 'em Mikey's danish route and subsequent mail drop off. He consistently punches the pooch on that glory run.

[RadioFan]

What I disagree with you about is the influence of the PC police on science. I think researchers are loathe to propose a hypothesis that, if proven true, would be politically incorrect. And anyone who sets forth such a hypothesis is immediately thrown under the bus.

Complete bullshit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO9laiUX ... rming_myth

Hold on a second, bro.

Not to go all Dinsdale on you, but you're trying to make a point with a fucking TV "news" story?

Ponderous.

Hilarious, actually.

As you, yourself, have posted before, the science behind global warming (and the "dangers" of second-hand smoke, for that matter) has been politicized.

Policy-makers and pontificators using scientific studies to further an agenda? Tell me you knew?

In this country, before long, we'll have a pro-UFO presidential candidate. Despite more than a few votes from LTS, that doesn't mean UFOs are real.

I think you started this thread trying to politicize an idea by a nutjob/charlatan, as MtLR has more than pointed out.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.


A TV news story, interviewing kids. Sad, but apropos.

[LTS TRN 2]

What advantage does society derive from permitting scum to breed?

--Adolph Hitler

[Wolfman]

Politics influencing science ?? Laughable !

sin--

Trofim Lysenko

[Goober McTuber]

Watson would sterilize or abort otherwise productive individuals for having traits that are physiologically undesirable (myopia, genetic deafness, blood disorders, etc.).

Well, there goes the SEC.

[PSUFAN]

Why, if the answer to the question is presently unknown, are we throwing stones at the person asking the question?

It's the way that he has said it. I agree that it should be possible - politically and financially - to explore theories such as this...but Watson furnishes potential opponents convenient handles with which to dismiss his questions. He comes across as being concerned about his own office politics, and perhaps his motivations are justly questioned. His method of approaching the issue does the issue no real favors, ultimately.

You better believe that there are researchers who have made things like this their life's work...and they have their head in their hands when guys like Watson open their dirtholes.

[BSmack]

What bullshit. Save your inane platitudes.

Simply put mv, nobody on this planet is without sin, or fully independent. You are a part of me. Deal with it.

[PSUFAN]

BSmack: You...complete me.
mvscal: go completely fuck yourself.

[Mike the Lab Rat]

You, on the other hand, seek to cull individuals from the species because you find them to be a waste, regardless of the genetic advantages they may carry in their DNA. As much as it may pain you to keep convicts and welfare users around and breeding, there might be serious biological arguments for keeping some of them around for the positive traits they carry in their DNA (disease resistance, new biological traits).

That argument isn't even remotely compelling. The bottom line cost/benefit does not favor keeping these "people" around. At the very least, criminals should be exterminated.

The issue was culling the herd using genetic traits as the criteria.

You've turned it into a "kill anyone who in prison or sponges off society" bit.

You're argument is not only not compelling, it's not even on-topic.

Hell, it doesn't even address the FACT that innocent folks get imprisoned - some for life or put on death row. You'd whack those folks in the name of bettering society and use your delightfully inane "gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet" horseshit.

If nothing else, you're entertaining.

[BSmack]

BSmack: You...complete me.
mvscal: go completely fuck yourself.

Notice how mv skirted that uncomfortable truth. Lots of repression going on in there. Lots.

[Jimmy Medalions]

You've turned it into a "kill anyone who in prison or sponges off society" bit.

You're right. I apologize. I've been approaching the issue from the wrong angle. By sterilizing and executing all the n...iggers in the country, we could reduce violent crime by nearly 45%, empty out a lot of prisons, fire a lot of prison guards and drastically thin the welfare roll. Oh, I guess we're back to killing criminals and spongers, aren't we?

OK, OK. Now if we line up all the Mexicans....

[Jay in Phoenix]

OK, OK. Now if we line up all the Mexicans....

So does that include yourself mv?

[poptart]

I will donate $4.39 to the Biggie Cohen laboratory in support of an exhaustive study into the disappearance of the NFL cornerback gene in Jews.