Their true colors shine brightly:
This Earth Day, April 22, Earth Day Network and the March for Science are co-organizing a rally and teach-in on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The day’s program will include speeches and trainings with scientists and civic organizers, musical performances, and a march through the streets of Washington, D.C. The crowd will gather at 8:00am, and the teach-in will begin at 09:00am.
Here’s a photo of AP’s science writer Seth Borenstein doing an interview with, er, Barney. I think. Pretty well sums up Seth’s outlook.
Godwin’s law was proven early, and this sign, pretty well sums up the insanity:
I seem to recall leftists went berserk when the Heartland institute put up a billboard with a similar meme, using the unabomber. But, apparently its OK when they do it.
Ummm….WTF?
More wackyiness:
Wow, just wow.
Seems that the Union of Concerned Scientists has a lot of hate. This is from their Twitter feed, but note they are too timid to put their organization name on any of the posters.
Losers.
Riiiight…you did it for science.
And here’s more….
I’m pretty sure that’s not 500 women:
Note the circle – looks like some of the communist worker signs of the 50’s
Umm, no.
So do environmental taxes.
Fantasy science heros:
Publicity seeking science activist Michael Mann team with Bill Nye the idiot guy:
The pussy hat is a nice touch:
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No matter what the cause it’s always the hippie crowd, they must be so cheap they do it for free.
This administration change happened not a moment too soon. This gives a look at the magnitude of the damage done to science, civilization, democracy, education, the economy, everything. A new institutional racism and hatred against those of European extraction – largely by self-loathing lefty members of the same stock is a phenomenon I have begun thinking about for a book on this topic. The perpetrators of this are too zealous to recognize that this dedication and “sevice” to their “clients” of other origins is a convoluted form of old fashion racism toward them. I won’t go into this further here, except to say I recognize the phenomenon from 50yrs ago when well meaning missionaries in Africa sought to “help” people that weren’t asking for help, nor were they asked what their needs were. This was decided for them by patriarchal/matriarchal do gooders. Anyway I despair that such deep pathologies developed over the past couple of decades may take more than a generation to fix.
These people at the #marchforscience in D.C. would have been right at home during the Moddle Ages.
But these are the Muddle Ages.
[Better the Muddle Ages than Multi-Muddled Modeled Ages. .mod]
Trump must be wondering why everyone thinks he controls science. I wonder which science these people think is being denied? They seem to do a pretty good job of denying the fact of (non-existent) global warming.
Question to the marchers… Please identify, specifically, which of the 100’s of climate models over the past 20 years have been shown to be accurate. I’ll wait… Still waiting…
Yeah, those marchers are are real science-y, aren’t they.
They believe in all the REALLY scientific, reality-grounded ideas that Lefties embrace, such as homeopathy, acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, Pyramid Power, Gaia, ESP, auras, spoon-bending psychics, Freudianism, feng shui, rolfing, harmonic convergence, “organic” foods, re-incarnation, astral projection, herbalism, telekinesis, aromatherapy, ouija boards, seances, chakras, channeling, GMO’s as Frankenfood, wymyn’s way of knowing, megavitamins, colonics, and—-most of all and especially—-the Nostrum of all Nostrums: Scientific Socialism.
Funny how progs can jeer at some conservatives for not believing Darwinism, yet promote a society that’s organized , IOW through “Intelligence by Design”. Funnier still their belief that they can change human nature by forcing people to behave as they would dictate.
Funniest of all that they claim AGW is “settled science” while at the same telling us that objective truth is a white patriarchal male conspiracy.
Yeah, the marchers are real “science-y”, aren’t they..
They believe in all the REALLY scientific, reality-grounded ideas that Lefties embrace, such as homeopathy, acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, Pyramid Power, Gaia, ESP, auras, spoon-bending psychics, Freudianism, feng shui, rolfing, harmonic convergence, astrology, “organic” foods, re-incarnation, herbalism, telekinesis, aromatherapy, ouija boards, seances, chakras, channeling, GMO’s as Frankenfood, wymyn’s way of knowing, megavitamins, colonics, and—-most of all and especially—-the Nostrum of all Nostrums: Scientific Socialism.
Funny how progs can jeer at some conservatives for not accepting Darwinism, while they themselves promote a society that’s re-organized by forcibly changing behavior and human nature itself, in other words through “Intelligence by Design.”
Funniest of all? That they can claim AGW is “settled science”, while at the same time arguing objective facts and truths are merely cultural artifacts imposed by a white male patriarchy.
Political SCIENCE-Y. They have heard of “science” but have never actually done any or studied any.
Don’t forget, they are anti-Darwin themselves. No change allowed. No survival of the fittest. Any and all change is unnatural and the fault of man. Look to your betters for salvation…
I think I will stick with the salvation celebrated this past Sunday.
Don’t worry… Darwinism will winnow many of the zealots from the gene pool. I look forward to many more Darwin Award contenders from this lot.
I think climate change is real.
I don’t think it will kill me or my kids. So I am a denier.
I think the planet has warmed, is warming and might even continue to warm.
I am not confident that CO2 is the main driver. So I am a denier.
I think most scientist are conscientious, honest, truth seekers.
But some may be money hungry glory hunters and the sceptics should be heard. So I am a denier.
One sign said god hates me.
The preachers have always told me that god loves me, sinner that I am.
If there is some logic in this, I cannot find it
I’m willing to bet that the person holding the “God hates Deniers” sign is an atheist. For many atheists, their knowledge of the Bible begins and ends with being able to spell it correctly most of the time.
I like the tick sign. Guess the didn’t read the follow up that in the study region, temps averaged lower. Great science done by activists. Conformation bias anyone?
Time to renew my subscription to SETI…clearly Terrestrial Intelligence belongs in the Rare Earths category! (sic)
Should anyone care, here is an article about it from Seth Borenstein. No mention of the dinosaur.
Forgot link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/march-science-events-place-around-globe-092118464.html
Here’s what I can’t understand. If I understand the “consensus”:
– Trump and his supporters are Nazis
– They are anti science
– They had prior warning of locations where scientists and their supporters would assemble.
Where are the people dressed in black, to bash the scientists with iron bars and pepper spray them? Isn’t that precisely what a fascist would do?
Andrew
Why do you ask? The people who ARE in black skin-tight armor, with their faces disguised and pepper-spraying (and attacking and beating their enemy with iron pipes and knives) are the liberal socialists and green-enviro’s up in the Berkeley Campus, viciously attacking every conservative voice who wishes to speak peacefully and freely in public.
The picture about disaster movies: “Megafault” had a scientist whom they listened to all the way through the movie—and it was a GIRL! They neglect to mention it’s usually the GOVERNMENT ignoring the scientist. Guess that’s too complex for their tiny little minds.
2+2=4! Presumably this is a shot of the educational workshop stuff promised. I guess you start with basics to see what level you are dealing with.
I was told there would be no math!
I wish I had seen that earlier. I could have gone with a sign “dy/dx=dy/dlnx x dlnx/dx” to see if I got abused for imposing my white patriarchal views.
Oops. Had 1/x originally.
If it was 2+2=Pi at least would would have found the Miles Mathis supporter.
2+2=11 in base 3.
2 + 2 = 5
For very large values of 2, and very small values of 5
Just to be ornery
I wonder if she needed help with that sign.
I was looking for a reason to stop watching Dr. Who.
The latest Doctor is reason enough.
Ironic the one about every disaster movie starts with a scientist being ignored.
The climatistas are fiercely ignoring actual scientists who can do things like multiple regression and data analysis – showing CO2 is not the most significant variable but one of the smaller ones.
And they refuse to discuss, debate, fund or investigate such things.
You could get a pretty fine disaster movie plot out of this. Maybe call it “Blackout”.
The President of the USA is a good guy in almost every movie. They seem to be selective about when Hollywood should be relied-on.
I watched the one in Melbourne – with my “Climate Hoax” t-shirt on. They seemed to be mostly elderly. Many of the young females were wearing pink hats. None of them look like they understood what the “scientific method” was all about.
Hattist !
And there you have it. A photo record of the 97%, captured for posterity.
Science is not the square root of -1. My calculator says that’s an invalid input.
I think I’m missing something.
The square root of -1 is actually incredibly useful in science.
That placard is absurd.
The square root of negative 1 actually comes up in practical equations. When it does, you can be sure that an oscillating sine or cosine factor is involved.
Exactly right! A scientist would not say “my cack-a-lator”. But a rube would. Clearly they are not scientists marching.
There was a young man of Nepal…
(You should all know it really – fundamental mathematics !)
i.e., not imaginary
And yet advanced electronics is very hard to do without that square root of -1. Some of the functions are a pain in the tail to do in trig functions, but work out a charm with complex numbers.
Only imaginary in the sense of being 100% abstract. You can hold up an apple and say “This is 1 apple.” Holding up i apples, on the other hand…
Hey dred! If you hold an empty left hand, that hand has 0 apples. If you then hold out your right hand with an apple in it, then that hand has 1 apple. But if you hold out your OTHER hand — well, that’s the hand that has i apples in it.
Simple really…
I’m a one hit wonder female with only one published (but reproducible and demonstrated robust results) piece of research to my name. Yet this march embarrasses the hell out of me! Come on women, get a frickin brain! That women are in this march makes me think we have a loooooong way to go before women are truly educated enough to be real scientists.
Pamela,
The ones in the march probably do not have a science degree, but rather a degree that ends in the word science or study. The women I know who work as scientists are mostly apolitical (with the exception of a couple of environmental biologists – they act like evangelists, but that isn’t limited to the women, that field just seems to attract a large number of political activists).
This confirms it — it was a march for science fiction.
My favorite sign shown in this thread was … God hates climate deniers
… just priceless.
There were many unfeminine feminists marching.
I am pretty sure that there is a concensus among philosophers of at least 97% that the epistemic certainty of a climate model prediction is quite a bit lower than the epistemic certainty of 2+2=4.
*consensus*
And any philosopher will tell you that “2” and “2” can be equivocal terms.
Who exactly are the “deniers” when it comes to science when it comes to the beginning of life and gender? Many of these same people and the politicians they support.
I was caught-up on a Facebook discussion the other day concerning the chlorination of drinking water at a nearby utility. The anti-Trump sentiment was strong with the people who thought water utilities were killing us. Some of the gems included people not knowing the difference between chlorine and chromium, people claiming Europe and Canada don’t do this, people claiming this is all new and due to the fact that Trump has eliminated the EPA, etc. When politics and hatred blind people, it’s impossible to get through.
The beginning of life? Some 3 billion years ago you mean? Or do you mean conception? In that case noone ever denied a fetus is ALIVE. But that is true with a flower as well. The question is at which point is it A HUMAN INDIVIDUAL. For which science says we don´t really know, philosofical question, but at least before it has a brain it can have no form of conscience which is normally a criterium for being considered human.
That chlorination is one of the reasons why their drinking water isn’t constantly giving them cholera, dysentery, or other generally nasty waterborne diseases. ;|
Chlorination or fluoridation?
Bet most of them couldn’t tell you what the difference is.
BEST EARTH DAY BON FIRE EVER! This year the neighbors blocked all routes the fire department could have used. Big improvement over last year. Anyway, we built a foundation of 6 fiberglass boats, surrounded with 250 pallets, topped with over 300 tires, and just over 40 cubic yards of wet leaves. Lost count at 42 plastic barrels of used motor oil. Three barrels of diesel poured over the whole thing like syrup over a sundae. Then flares tossed in from all directions. It was a beautiful thing. Fire was at least 300 feet in the air, smoke ten times that high. Lasted about 4 hours, best Earth Day Bon Fire ever.