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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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From PZ's place: Michael Medved says something dumb
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Posted on: May 14, 2008 12:34 PM, by PZ Myers
Did someone declare this National Flaming Racist Idiot week, and I just didn't notice until now? You have got to read Michael Medved's latest foray into pseudoscience: he has declared American superiority to be genetic, encoded in our good old American DNA. Because our ancestors were immigrants, who were risk-takers, who were selected for their energy and aggressiveness. Oh, except for those who are descended from slaves.
The idea of a distinctive, unifying, risk-taking American DNA might also help to explain our most persistent and painful racial divide - between the progeny of every immigrant nationality that chose to come here, and the one significant group that exercised no choice in making their journey to the U.S. Nothing in the horrific ordeal of African slaves, seized from their homes against their will, reflected a genetic predisposition to risk-taking, or any sort of self-selection based on personality traits.
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It's enougth to make you wonder why this dolt has any credibility with anyone at all.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 05/15/2008 : 21:29:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
It's enougth to make you wonder why this dolt has any credibility with anyone at all. |
Doesn't that apply to all of the Discovery Institute fellows associated with the DI's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture?
I mean, haven't they all said so many such butt-stupid things so consistently that were any one of them to claim that the sky is blue, you'd have to go look out your window and check? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2008 : 03:26:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by filthy
It's enougth to make you wonder why this dolt has any credibility with anyone at all. |
Doesn't that apply to all of the Discovery Institute fellows associated with the DI's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture?
I mean, haven't they all said so many such butt-stupid things so consistently that were any one of them to claim that the sky is blue, you'd have to go look out your window and check?
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Yeh, but there's so many of them that I've gotta take them one at a time lest my bullshit dectector spins another main bearing.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 05/16/2008 : 05:37:24 [Permalink]
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| I think it's great that the Discovery Institute thinks that bringing on an AM talk radio host is a smart hire. It demonstrates how much the DI is not about science, and is all about demagoguery. |
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Michael Medved, IDjit extraordinary
