Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Well, I wrote about this crazy March For Science idea two months ago, but the story just gets better. Far and away the most insightful comment I’ve read on this goofy idea of marching was from a climate scientist I respect, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., who said:
The smartest people on the planet want to oppose Trump & the best they can come up with is a march in support of themselves?
Hard to argue with that … but since then there have been two developments.
One was the announcement that the March For Science will be led by none other than Bill Nye the Science Guy. We’ve discussed his wondrous views about science before.
Of course, this appointment of Bill Nye led to many people pointing and laughing. With all of the distinguished scientists in the country, the idea of picking Bill Nye as the honorary poster boy for the march is hilarious.
But wait, it gets better. In the sadly common Blue-On-Blue violence of identity politics, there’s been a new protest. This protest is not because Bill Nye lacks credibility. Nor is the protest because Bill Nye lacks credentials or cranial horsepower. And the protest is not because Bill Nye lacks support in the scientific community.
Nope.
This protest is because Bill Nye lacks melanin.
Seriously. You can’t possibly make this up. If I were Bill Nye, I’d go straight to the ACLU and get them to file an anti-discrimination lawsuit. What the organizers have done is a criminal offense under the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act. It’s clearly against the law to discriminate against the melanin-deficient, that’s just cruel.
It gets better. The protest is not just because Bill Nye lacks melanin. He’s also guilty of being short of another even more important requirement.
Bill Nye lacks that scientific necessity, the vital XX chromosome.
So in the wonderful American non-tradition of everyone getting a Participation Trophy, the March Organizing Committee has added two more “Honorary Co-Poster Children” or some title like that as Co-Leaderpersons of the March. Of course, neither of these new Co-Coordinationizers lacks those vital scientific elements of melanin and XX chromosomes.
Now, please be clear what I’m saying. I’m not dissing the two new Co-Non-Gender-Titled-People in any sense. I’m sure that both of the women named as Honorary Co-Chairpersonages, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the Iraqi-English pediatrician who exposed the Flint lead contamination, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff, a Hispanic biologist and businesswoman, are good scientists and well-intentioned people.
I’m just pointing out that this is another in the many pieces of evidence that this is a March For Political Correctness, not a March For Science in any sense. Opportunity wasted. Get ready for impassioned speeches from all the extremely scientific co-ordinatrices.
Prepare for impassioned speeches from a bunch of extremely scientific spokesdudes and spokesmodels on how Trump hates water and air, and how spending $ Trillions with a T to cool the earth by 0.1°C in fifty years is a scientifically brilliant plan supported by 97% of all true moral noble and upstanding humanoids everywhere. Amen.
Oh, and if you disagree, think of the grandchildren, because compassion, and besides you’re just a hater and a scientific troglodyte, because 97%.
I put the over/under of someone passing out white lab coats along the march route at 100%.
March for science? … I don’t think so.
A rainy day here, more rain on the way. The forest is happy. The cat is not happy.
Me, I’m overjoyed, and I can only wish the same for you.
w.
PS—When you comment on someone’s ideas, I request that you please QUOTE THE EXACT WORDS YOU ARE REFERRING TO. That way, we can all understand what you are discussing. I can defend my words. I can’t defend your words about my words.
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Non sensical. Bill would be XY not lacking a Y. He would not have a pair of Xs. The women do of course.
Its still not fixed. 4 lines down… Coordinators should end …melanin and double X chromosomes.
It is a regular March of Crimes
Agreed… This is an important error that destroys the credibility of the author. Needs to be fixed ASAP!!
Ah! Fixed! The old version appeared in my news feed and I reacted! Please feel free to delete my responses 🙂
Correct. Bill does not have a pair.
+1000
And you were way ahead of the crowd.
HAHAHAHA Good one Ted
Speak up for Bill. Doesn’t mentally handicapped count for something in this popularity contest?
Bill, if he really wanted to lead the march, had many options open. He could just get billy goat stubborn and sue, claiming reverse discrimination. This would have been highly appropriate, as his name is Bill. In the middle of the difficultly scale, he could snip off his package, cut the testicles off and throw them in the trash, and some new silicone breast implants, a very good total body waxing, a beautiful wig, a good waxing, and he could lead the march as an ugly white woman. On the easy end of the scale, he could just change his name to Loretta Dolezal and claim that he’s a cis/trans/xyz black woman, and no one had any right or authority to say otherwise. All the methods have a downside, of course. The reason Bill Nye wouldn’t want to take the easy, surgery free route, is because Loretta Dolezal the Science Guy doesn’t rhyme.
Why doesn’t Nye simply Identify as Black? Problem Solved.
He could identify as a black, female. And for good measure, a black, female, transgender, lesbian. That should cover all bases.
And carry the Koran.
LGBT? Isn’t that liquor, guns, beer and tater tots?
Rednecks Support L.G.B.T.
(Lots of Guns, Beer, and Trucks)
He might as well include his Native American identification (like gender “We don’t need no stinkin’ birth certificates”).
Nah ! still excludes hermaphrodites.
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And… wear a skirt?
If I were in high school I would tell the administrators that I self identify as a woman so that I can do PE with the girls and shower with them when it’s over.
You might think twice about that shower, especially after a ball game. They can sometimes leave a bigger mess than the guys.
If I was ever thrown in prison I would become transgender and demand I be put in a women’s prison…then be a lesbian.
That is how real men of genius roll.
Be careful what you wish for:
https://breakingnews-wiki.com/first-sex-reassignment-inmate-calls-womens-prison-torture/
Joe; yes, but they look good doing it.
I think high school showers have been abandoned in most districts. This policy gives after gym classes a distinct aroma.
You forgot the lisp
He has to go full Godfrey Elfwick and identify as a black gender queer atheist Muslim and wear a burka-pussyhat combo.
Please, no micro aggressions. Be PC: That’s vaghat, bro.
Or underwear …
There was a time when judging someone’s worth by the color of their skin was considered racist.
I guess that we as a society have finally outgrown such nonsense.
Dream on !
For shame! Don’t try and expose the ludicrous liberal self-hatred and hypocrisy.
It is still racist Mark but here in the twilight zone the shadows change the landscape. Black is the new black and white is just bad taste.
Silly rabbit, racism is for white people. ;|
It would be funny if a large number of people did not insist it to be true.
Instead, the “Only white people can be racists” meme is in fact the most racist thing I have ever heard in my entire life.
It’s actually a remake of the movie Ghost Busters in the works.
Perhaps he could have his testicles removed?
He still has them?
If Bill Nye can identify as a scientist, then Pluto can identify as a planet.
,,,or a dawg!
Oh, that Pluto? He’s already more qualified in Nye’s “mickey mouse science”. He was in Fantasia and Nye wasn’t, IIRC.
Another PC Green tantrum to amuse the Deplorables.
And of course it will be elevated, amplified and celebrated by the main stream meediots.
say what you will about political correctness, but the coolest troll the skeptic gang ever pulled was the unabomber billboard and we know what happened there. nothing more pc than a guy with pussy cancer.
Hey, man…I would appreciate a trigger warning the next time to microaggress me to such a macro extent.
I’m an HR Pufnstuf guy myself. Bill Nye has no gravitas. he’s pretty much a girlie Max Headroom
Please, don’t insult M-m-m-m-ax H-h-h-h-eadroom
What idiot chose the color blue to represent the leftist party, CNN?
Rumor has it that Tim Russert of NBC set the color convention, or overturned the previous convention, in October 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
I wonder how long Dave Leips Atlas has been around.
http://uselectionatlas.org/2012.php
The color is from the color of the pills that the party members take. Recall blue pill/red pill from Matrix.https://www.google.com/search?q=matrix+pills&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Quote:
“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” The term redpill refers to a human that is aware of the true nature of the Matrix.
Using red to represent the Democrats was hitting too close to home.
That’s the truth.
Yeah, right. Teach me to depend on my often erroneous memory. Thanks to all, fixed.
w.
Someday, I’ll also have a white lab coat.
I think you might have to graduate from vagina costume first.
Err, that didn’t come out right, sorry.
I’ve got my white lab coat, scooter, fart blaster, rubber boots, rubber gloves and welding goggles (Dr. Nefario, “Despicable Me”). The fart blaster is handy on the occasional conference call.
I worked in laboratories my entire 40+ year career. The only time I wore a white lab coat was for marketing photos (in 1982 I think).
I wore a white coat, once. It didn’t have any sleeves. And my lab had a bouncy floor and walls.
White straight jacket?
Straight jacket qualifies as a micro aggression.
Just make sure it doesn’t have extra long sleeves.
I still have my dad’s white coats. All I need is a butterfly net and I can go on the march, too.
…do you get a pink hat with that?
Er…it’s ‘strait-jacket,’ chaps.
Details… they always ruin the punchlines.
Shouldn’t the march be led by female polar bears? Or a polar bear and a black bear, for melaninic balance. No doubt CACA has negatively impacted black bears as well. Although more berry bushes one must admit is a good thing.
As I understand it, polar bears actually have black skin and the hair is not white but pigment free/transparent (with a hollow structure), the “white” light effect is due to a visible light scattering effect of the hollow hair. So a female polar bear hits two protected classes when applying an anthropomorphic PC viewing angle. (Or is that three protected classes when including their threatened species listing?)
You are correct as to polar bear skin. The white hairs conduct photons to the absorbent surface.
Which makes your conclusion correct as well, in the bizarro world of PCism.
Especially if she identifies as a male polar bear.
You’ve given me a great idea! Show up at the March for Science dressed as a cuddly polar bear, but then start biting and mauling people. Truth in advertising.
We have no idea of what Bill Nye’s sexual preference or gender identity is, so he may very well be a representative of those various groupings.
Its just a publicity stunt signifying nothing.
Georg Devrie Klein, PhD, PG, FGSA
let Boston Antifa know! They’ll definitely want to contribute.
i know a guy with 3 X chromosomes tht i’m trying to get him to do a video warning about global warming.
if it works out… lulz
I suppose the “Super Males” are 2 Y’s to join the march.
+97
Supermen are XYY & upwards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYY_syndrome
I think the real reason why many people are skeptical about CAGW is because we haven’t seen scientists marching around doing the “Hey Hey. Ho Ho” chant.
I bet if people see a few Phds chanting “Hey Hey. Ho Ho. Climate skepticism has gotta go” the skeptical holdouts and lukewarmers will instantly turn into true believers. Nothing changes minds like chanting marchers. Bank on it.
Awesome
I wonder how many will be “rent a scientist” protester?
97%
+97
Gives jobs to the homeless.
Slightly O/T. Colin Kaepernick the former San Francisco 49rs’ QB drew a lot of media attention when he refused to stand for the National Anthem last season. He also pledged $100K a month for ten months back to the community.
I checked his foundation website to see how the money was being spent, was surprised to see $17.5K went to 350.org to be used for “People’s Climate Mobilization March. Transportation, food, overnight accommodations, and other hard costs”
http://kaepernick7.com/ck7-january-2017-donations/
Has he been selected yet? Might want to claw back some of that cash.
No, he opted out of a $17 million dollar contract with the 49er’s, though the team also had the option to release him.
In a way, he has clawed back — his agent has said he won’t be protesting the anthem this year. Of course, because he landed with a team, people are claiming his being black balled, even though RG III and Cutler haven’t been signed any team either.
The new series of Dr Who starts in a week or so.
The new assistant is not merely a woman (done, repeatedly) or black (done, more than once) or even homosexual (done, J Harkness).
The new assistant hits the trifecta; black lesbian.
Of course the soap opera is irrelevant. The science and people matters in science fiction, as in society.
But it raises an interesting question.
Where do we go from here?
Or will there be a reaction?
Sheep
…And you’d think he’d snazzy up the ol’ TARDIS abit.
The new, revised Tardis (or Re-Tardis) will be unveiled in 2017 or 2018.
You don’t suppose there is a possibility that Doctor Who’s following companion will be a robot – think Star Wars or Hitchhiker’s Guide – or, fantastically, a person of substantially-enhanced life-experience (‘old’) – or do you?
The fastest growing section of the population, I understand, is the over 100s.
Should be scope for selecting an over-80 . . . .
Needs to be able to climb stairs to evade daleks [unless the flying daleks have purged the others!].
Auto – defiantly under-70 for a good few years yet!
I’m trying to think of something wittier than “LOL” but it hasn’t popped into my mind.
Lacks cranial horsepower?
I don’t think so.
Bill is as smart as any horse i know.
Mr. Ed was smarter. Or at least more entertaining. Wiiiilllllbbbbeeeerrrr!
LOL. I knew that someone would bring up Mr Ed! OK. You got me.. Apart from Mr Ed…
A day spent with a horse is never wasted. A day with Bill Nye and his cronies, however…
Depends if you like your ‘road apples’ the physical ones or philosophical ones. They both stink but the former are easier to clean up after.
Easily correctable. In the name of DIVERSITY, there should not be one leader, there should be one Steering Committee. That way you can adjust the proportion of chromosomes and of melanin to any value divined by the DNC. And the march will be much more life-like.
Why only one steering committee?
Why not a continuous spectrum of steering committees?
Don’t all of the 39 gender-identities need to be recognized? Definitely need more than one committee.
Rhoda R;
You mean there aren’t 97 gender-identities?
Bill Nye channels Jerry Lewis as the Nutty Professor far more than he does Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard)! He even looks like the Lewis Character.
Then a March of Crimes Telethon can’t be that far off
I wish my grandkids had a Mr. Wizard like the last one. Fools like Bill Nye are a hazzard to navgation. Something I just thought of that’s not too far OT. I went to Berkeley CA high school 1959 to 1963. They were transitioning from the “old” chemistry to the “new” chemistry wherein you memorized Bohr orbits, etc . I was in the last “old” chemistry class. Also in the class were the kids of three professors at UC Berkeley. Including a very nice young lady whose father was the head of the Chemistry department at UC Berkeley and had a real Nobel prize in Chemistry. Those parents cold have their kids in either the old or the new. They chose old. Maybe they understood just how damaking the new educational fads would prove to be.