Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 23, 2016
Transcript:
Jeffrey: Let me get this straight...you want me to cherry-pick science to use as evidence that the stuff you just made up is factual? Danae: Yes, please. Jeffrey: Well, the science community has a term for that kind of practice, Danae...Mainstream? Jeffrey: I was going for intellectual dishonesty, but that works, too.
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
Well, mainstream press.
Bilan over 8 years ago
She shouldn’t be asking Jeffrey. Go with the scientists that “proved” global warming doesn’t exist.
Randy B Premium Member over 8 years ago
I once worked for a guy who sent me off to do some research to find an answer for him. He didn’t like my report. He wanted a particular answer, and I told him that if he knew ahead of time what answer he wanted, he should tell me and I could then tell him whether or not I could justify that answer. He looked offended.
Kali39 over 8 years ago
Fox Spews coverage?
keenanthelibrarian over 8 years ago
Ah, well, we always (in our hearts) thought that might be the truth …
dl11898 over 8 years ago
Tell her the earth is flat, she’ll buy it.
gorbag over 8 years ago
In other words, the scientists who act like they are lawyers…
Pithy (yeah, right) over 8 years ago
From Global Greenhouse Warming:
The IPCC, Fourth Report released in 2007 stated that, multiple lines of evidence confirms that the post-industrial rise in greenhouse gases does not stem from natural mechanisms. In other words this is anthropogenic climate change, and the significant increases in the atmosphere of these potent greenhouse gases are a result of human activity.
freewaydog over 8 years ago
Mainstream sucks, it does not measure up to my standards.
DW Premium Member over 8 years ago
Sounds like every religion that ignores science, looking for only those facts that support their position. And persecute those who disagree with them.
Boldly question all those who do not want you to question their dogma!
sandpiper over 8 years ago
Could be any political campaign for the last 60 years.
GLB1 over 8 years ago
I’m surprised Wiley could nail Climate Change in one panel like this. Great job!
edwinmarsh over 8 years ago
Wiley nailed almost all government and soros funded science.
ladamson1918 over 8 years ago
It’s called junk science.
Hardthought over 8 years ago
Kinda like man made global climate change is “mainstream”.
BTW, the climate does change, the cause is up for debate. I live in NE Kansas, in an area called the “Glacial Hills”. They were deposited by a glacier that melted/retreated over 11000 years ago. Why? Because climates change.
Hardthought over 8 years ago
@NightGaunt49 “Reich wingers” How cute! Did you think of that yourself or did mommy help?
JimT8 over 8 years ago
Hooray!
David Rickard Premium Member over 8 years ago
“Corporate sponsored” is another appropriate description for that process…
Guilty Bystander over 8 years ago
And this, kids, is how climate change came to be accepted without the proof science used to require to make something “true.” Climate Changers would throw guys like Galileo and Copernicus in jail for challenging their consensus.
rslag over 8 years ago
So Wiley equates “mainstream” science with “intellectual dishonesty”. What? All of it? Or just the bits he doesn’t like? Which bits would that be? Climate change, maybe, or intelligent design? Young Earth Creationism, UFO’s, anti-vaxing, pyramid power? Tobacco Institute stuff? Is mainstream physics ok? Is Maxwell a fraud? Have we been lied to about Einstein all our lives? Magnetism, how does that work?
// Electric current is equal to voltage divided by resistance — nice try Mr. Ohm! — that’s what they WANT us to believe!
Geezer over 8 years ago
The side of any scientific debate most like Danae’s church is the one that invokes the coercive power of government to silence, punish, or intimidate the heretics who contradict the Official Orthodoxy.
JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 8 years ago
Government officials, candidates for public offices, corporations – and yes, even scientists – often “cherry-pick science” for their own ends.
There’s plenty of “intellectual dishonesty” to go around.
pcolli over 8 years ago
Anyone who insists that we believe (and regard as true) a collection of words written by a committee over hundreds of years needs to open their eyes and minds..I see the climate changes and it’s happening too quickly to be natural.
dabugger over 8 years ago
‘mainstream’ as intellectual dishonesty; well as Jeffrey reluctantly sez. It will work in Danae’s sphere. Of course that does not mean it specifically meets the facts; somewhere, science suffers, as happens.
hippogriff over 8 years ago
BorborygmyWell, Maxwell did have a demon. (For readers who never heard of Maxwell’s demon, look it up before responding.)
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly over 8 years ago
Tabloid Jornelism!
markjoseph125 over 8 years ago
Another good word for that practice is “creationism”.