The superstitions of John McCain
John McCain is a superstitious nut.
Posted by Lippard at 5/06/2008 09:04:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Arizona, John McCain, politics, religion
Posted by Einzige at 5/04/2008 10:29:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: Arizona, economics, housing bubble, technology
Posted by Lippard at 5/02/2008 01:39:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: Ben Stein, creationism, Expelled, intelligent design, movies, religion
The focus of my work as a domestic mediator is meeting the needs of children that I work with, by way of their parents, and not the wants of their parents. And I ask the three of you, how can we, as symbolically the children of the future president, expect the two of you, the three of you to met our needs, the needs in housing and in crime and you name it ... [emphasis in Healy]None of the candidates challenged Walthall's assumption that citizens of the United States should be treated "symbolically" as children of a president-father.
Posted by Lippard at 5/02/2008 11:12:00 AM 5 comments
Labels: Goldwater Institute, law, politics
Posted by Lippard at 5/02/2008 11:08:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: copyright, religion, Scientology
"I am horrified to find my name on such a list. I have spent the last 20 years arguing the opposite."
Dr. David Sugden. Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh
"I have NO doubts ..the recent changes in global climate ARE man-induced. I insist that you immediately remove my name from this list since I did not give you permission to put it there."
Dr. Gregory Cutter, Professor, Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University
"I don't believe any of my work can be used to support any of the statements listed in the article."
Dr. Robert Whittaker, Professor of Biogeography, University of Oxford
"Please remove my name. What you have done is totally unethical!!"
Dr. Svante Bjorck, Geo Biosphere Science Centre, Lund University
"I'm outraged that they've included me as an "author" of this report. I do not share the views expressed in the summary."
Dr. John Clague, Shrum Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University
"I am very shocked to see my name in the list of "500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares". Because none of my research publications has ever indicated that the global warming is not as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, I view that the inclusion of my name in such list without my permission or consensus has damaged my professional reputation as an atmospheric scientist."Dr. Ming Cai, Associate Professor, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University.
"Just because you document natural climate variability doesn't mean anthropogenic global warming is not a threat. In fact I would venture that most on that list believe a natural cycle and anthropogenic change combined represent a greater threat."Peter F. Almasi, PhD Candidate in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Columbia University
"Why can't people spend their time trying to identify and evaluate the facts concerning climate change rather than trying to obscure them?"Dr. James P. Berry, Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
"They have taken our ice core research in Wyoming and twisted it to meet their own agenda. This is not science."Dr. Paul F. Schuster, Hydrologist, US Geological Survey
"Please remove my name IMMEDIATELY from the following article and from the list which misrepresents my research."Dr. Mary Alice Coffroth, Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo
This demonstrates a very serious ethical lapse by the Heartland Institute--they've clearly tried to pull a fast one and been caught on it.
Posted by Lippard at 5/01/2008 10:47:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: Arizona, climate change, ethics, Heartland Institute, politics, Scientology
I believe God created the heavens and the earth, and it doesn’t scare me when scientists say that can’t be proved. I couldn’t give a [profanity] whether a person calls himself a scientist. Science has covered itself with glory, morally, in my time. Scientists were the people in Germany telling Hitler that it was a good idea to kill all the Jews. Scientists told Stalin it was a good idea to wipe out the middle-class peasants. Scientists told Mao Tse-Tung it was fine to kill 50,000,000 people in order to further the revolution.In an interview on the Trinity Broadcasting Network with Paul Crouch, Jr. (video is available if you follow the link):
Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.Note that he offers no qualifiers. He doesn't say science must be complemented with ethics. He doesn't say that science (like any knowledge of truths about the universe) may have negative as well as positive consequences. He simply says that science leads to mass murder.
Crouch: That’s right.
Stein: …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
Crouch: Good word, good word.
Posted by Lippard at 5/01/2008 04:26:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: Ben Stein, ethics, Expelled, movies, philosophy, religion, science
Posted by Lippard at 5/01/2008 02:02:00 PM 3 comments
Labels: civil liberties, Institute for Justice, law
Posted by Lippard at 5/01/2008 10:31:00 AM 0 comments