Origins
Good one.
Dear Science Deniers,
(Anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, climate hoaxers, flat-Earthers, etc)
You found one another & communicate via stupefyingly advanced technologies that pivot on the discoveries of scientists.
Just thought I’d remind you of that fact.
Sincerely,
Your Smart Phone— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 17, 2021
Sadly, other than a segment of the anti-Evolutionists, most of them don’t regard themselves as ‘science deniers’. Instead, they think that they are the ones being skeptical, like a “real scientist”. This lets them use modern tech without being caught in the explosion of their own cognitive dissonance.
Perspective. :)
Yet Tyson will not weigh in on whether men are women or whether sex is immutable in our species or not. The one time (the only time I know of) he was asked about those issues directly, he did some waffling, refused to answer and tried to make the interviewer out to be the one doing an odd thing by even asking the questions.
Plus he does that overstating of science’s reach move that can be so annoying (claiming science is all you need to figure out moral & political issues kind of thing). He has his faults, but I like this one tweet.
This is the same guy who wrote about how Italians built cathedrals and Spanish didn’t so therefore Spain ruled the waves or something…but yeah, everyone knows some things and not others. But I did want to mention that he, like a lot of us, is unclear on the distinction between science and engineering/technology, or unwilling to acknowledge it. Some of us unequivocally support both, some neither, some one and not the other. Those of us who generally support science while being willing to occasionally question the wisdom of engineering talk about the ‘precautionary principle’; those of us who unquestioningly support engineering while being cautious about science I refer to as ‘creationists with guns’.
These are the same people who think that science and technology are being used against the steeple to keep us compliant.
They’re not deniers, they are smarter than us.
The local rag (San Francisco Chronicle) went on a Cletus Safari the other day. Visiting one of the less vaccinated communities in the Bay Area. Although given the demographics of Antioch, it was probably not “Cletus”.
“Well I don’t trust them vaccines. What about the long term effects. They have not convinced me.”
The interview was in a LIQUOR STORE PARKING LOT, and the Nobel Prize candidate was of course sucking on a cancer stick.
Hey, somebody should tell NPR that one neat trick, they could get out of the diners for a change.