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Subject: Re: OT: It ain't science, Rocket...
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:39:44 -0400
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On 4/25/2025 4:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2025 at 1:00:01 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> "Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks
>> [were] more likely to cite research papers than their right-wing
>> counterparts."
>>
>> "There are striking differences in amount, content and character of the
>> science cited by partisan policymakers ..."
>>
>> "Left-leaning think tanks were 5 times more likely to cite science than
>> right-leaning ones."
> 
> Depends on what they consider science.
> 
> Remember, this is the crew that told us 6 feet distancing was "the science".
> That closing outdoor geography, like beaches and oceans was necessary to
> combat the Wuhan Flu, that you couldn't get it if you were vaccinated, and
> that men can become pregnant and there are 87 genders (and counting).
> 
> This is what the Left considers "the science", so saying they're more likely
> to cite science isn't really the own you think it is. 

Who is "the crew"?  Nature magazine?  I'm largely unfamiliar with them.

Meanwhile, anyone with a basic grasp of science will know that "six 
feet' is a threshold for an arbitrary likelihood of contagion, and not a 
magic border that germs dare not cross.  (And anyone *without* that 
basic grasp is best served by believing in the magic border.)

As for this being an "own", what *I* take from it (and I do think it's 
credible) is that the Left public is less prone to take things on faith.