Since when is sticking your fingers in your ears and not believing or refusing to see current problems, is new, this has been the way of the world for centuries.
This strip is confusing “science” with “reality and truth”.
Science is not what the elite say is the truth. It is a process by which we seek to discern the truth and reality.
Sadly “the Science” has been the norm where by the political class seek to deceive and control the masses. The best example is the man-made global warming hoax designed get people to believe that they must give up on using energy to prevent a crisis that has been predicted to have happened by now and still has not. OFcourse, the latest example of Scientism is the efforts to demand “vaccination” with a genetic injection re-defined as a “vaccine” even though it does not prevent infection or spread of a virus. Simultaneously, “the Science” attempts to sell silly stories about natural mutation of a bat coronovirus 900 miles away in a Pangolin in a wet market in Wuhan, while ignoring the Faucic fundeed lab that created the virus itself. The same virus that has a 19 nuceotide sequence identical to the mRNA “vaccine” patented by Moderna -- SEVERAL YEARS AGO!
“In 10 million years, rats will have evolved to fill the niche formerly held by homo sap. Their science will be the same, but their devils will have two legs.”
Discouraging that since 2016, the U.S. has gone from being a democracy to an idiocracy with significant numbers of the Alt-Reich denying science, politics, economics, history.
Which Douglas Adams character/book explained flying? Danae has mastered the first part. All that remains is to perfect her ability to avoid colliding with the ground.
So so many times I read this strip and say yesp another time to say “Wiley Miller” can’t really be this stupid, can he?" But, I am forced to decide, Wiley is either really really stupid, or Wiley is so in the tank for the “one world” oligarchs, that he will put up any disingenuous strip he can dream up.
Tyson is an idiot. The good thing about science is that you prove it over and over again would be accurate. Or, maybe, science doesn’t depend on your beliefs to demonstrate it’s veracity but rather on experimental results. The point is that science has gotten it wrong before and will get it wrong again but it is self correcting because if it is wrong, future experimental results will demonstrate that.
The future will be interesting. Danae won’t forget this result, but I seriously doubt it will serve to curb her attempts to overturn similar standards by which normal humans live. It is her nature to challenge.
Actually, the collection of sciences is not about being right or wrong, true or false. They are about gathering information, making observations, and developing models that might describe some parts of that behavior based on certain conditions and requirements.
Technically it’s not true. It’s the best explanation we can come up with, given what we know. The test is, does it work? It mostly does and it’s improving constantly.
Facts are true. The earth is round. That’s observable and measurable and testable. Social facts are as true as material facts, but opinions and interpretations about the meaning of social facts, and what to do next, may vary greatly. : “I’m pregnant”, a teen girl announces at the dinner table. That’s a fact. Opinions about that fact, and what to do next, differ among everyone who heard the announcement. In politics a person in one party argues “MY political position is based on FACTS!” Those in the other party can accurately claim the same, and based on the same facts.
The problem with the “Neil DeGrasse Tyson edict” is that scientific conclusions aren’t always correct. That’s why science must always be open to new discoveries, even when those discoveries challenge long-established science-based tenets. So to say “…science…is true whether or not you believe in it” makes the erroneous assumption that science is always right.
How did we get to the point where people get paper certificates instead of education?
My second wife was an intelligent person. On a good day, you could talk String Theory with her. If she were mad, however, she would not accept my opinion on the direction of Down. :) :(
Who knew that Wiley Miller is a descendant of Galileo…you know that scientist that had to argue the earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun reality all to the umbrage of his contemporary know-it-alls…
The bad thing about science is there’s a lot of stuff in it now that we don’t really know is true, it’s just that a lot of scientists believe it is. Surprise, surprise, that’s not the same thing.
patrick murphy, loony squiggles, montana bill, rikitikiDA, klemubermoron, ammosexuallydysfunctional, opspecial ed, JAwholikebluegrass, do you believe that humans are causing global warming?:
eastern.woods.metal over 2 years ago
The virus is real whether you believe or not
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 2 years ago
And the magical being in the sky is not real, weather you believe it or not.
RAGs over 2 years ago
Maybe she can run for congress.
Bilan over 2 years ago
Wait a sec. Cartoon physics says that you won’t fall as long as you don’t look down.
KenTheCoffinDweller over 2 years ago
But the ones over the rainbow bridge most definitely are real. As is the world tree and the overgrown serpent.
David_the_CAD over 2 years ago
The secret to floating is not to not believe in gravity it is to forget to hit the ground when you fall.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
Now if we could just arrange for EVERYBODY to have this experience…
Ammo hates the comment policy Premium Member over 2 years ago
Nahhh Trust the Science it’s never ever wrong.
Scorpio Premium Member over 2 years ago
And let the wailing of the id10t flerfers and the science deniers commence.
C over 2 years ago
If you divorce thinking from reality, you deserve what comes your way
GiantShetlandPony over 2 years ago
Facts are funny that way. Facts don’t care whether you believe them or not.
nicka93 over 2 years ago
Since when is sticking your fingers in your ears and not believing or refusing to see current problems, is new, this has been the way of the world for centuries.
keenanthelibrarian over 2 years ago
If you don’t want to believe in the laws of physics (ie the force of gravity), then it doesn’t exist?? Way to go Danae!!
don.snowdogs over 2 years ago
A mini Neil Degrasse Tyson!
Ignatz Premium Member over 2 years ago
ANYTHING true is true whether or not you believe in it, Neil. That’s not exclusive to science.
Free or Not? Premium Member over 2 years ago
This strip is confusing “science” with “reality and truth”.
Science is not what the elite say is the truth. It is a process by which we seek to discern the truth and reality.
Sadly “the Science” has been the norm where by the political class seek to deceive and control the masses. The best example is the man-made global warming hoax designed get people to believe that they must give up on using energy to prevent a crisis that has been predicted to have happened by now and still has not. OFcourse, the latest example of Scientism is the efforts to demand “vaccination” with a genetic injection re-defined as a “vaccine” even though it does not prevent infection or spread of a virus. Simultaneously, “the Science” attempts to sell silly stories about natural mutation of a bat coronovirus 900 miles away in a Pangolin in a wet market in Wuhan, while ignoring the Faucic fundeed lab that created the virus itself. The same virus that has a 19 nuceotide sequence identical to the mRNA “vaccine” patented by Moderna -- SEVERAL YEARS AGO!
Sigh.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 2 years ago
Just ask any coyote and they’ll tell you that doesn’t work!
russef over 2 years ago
Helluva lotta of floaters out there these days.
scote1379 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Gravity is not your Friend ( especially on Ice ) !
njchris over 2 years ago
Unfortunately, the US Congress has yet to learn that fact.
Redd Panda over 2 years ago
And, another troll pokes his head up. Copy and pasting crap doesn’t make you a brain.
Nice avatar, Always helps to use the image of a blatant racist, anti Semitic, so we have no doubts where you coming from.
jhampa over 2 years ago
Then again, science is only as good as the present ideas that are researching it
david_42 over 2 years ago
“In 10 million years, rats will have evolved to fill the niche formerly held by homo sap. Their science will be the same, but their devils will have two legs.”
Redd Panda over 2 years ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Why do some feel the need, to use their full name? The I.R.S. only asks for a middle initial.
Should I introduce myself as Redd Loquacious Panda?
And ‘’Who put the Ape in Apricot’’? So many questions, so little time.
mourdac Premium Member over 2 years ago
Discouraging that since 2016, the U.S. has gone from being a democracy to an idiocracy with significant numbers of the Alt-Reich denying science, politics, economics, history.
Lenavid over 2 years ago
The exception to the rule, of course, is Political Science.
mindjob over 2 years ago
Science isn’t what it’s cracked up to be anymore
LKrueger41 over 2 years ago
Which Douglas Adams character/book explained flying? Danae has mastered the first part. All that remains is to perfect her ability to avoid colliding with the ground.
GeorgeWhite over 2 years ago
So so many times I read this strip and say yesp another time to say “Wiley Miller” can’t really be this stupid, can he?" But, I am forced to decide, Wiley is either really really stupid, or Wiley is so in the tank for the “one world” oligarchs, that he will put up any disingenuous strip he can dream up.
ajr58(1) over 2 years ago
Gravity is only a theory ….
Diat60 over 2 years ago
Ah, but, for one brief shining moment…………..
Lovnlife over 2 years ago
The virus is absolutely real. The vaccine isn’t as wonderful as touted, per Dr. Walensky. https://share.newsbreak.com/lz48whab
majkmushrm Premium Member over 2 years ago
Tyson is an idiot. The good thing about science is that you prove it over and over again would be accurate. Or, maybe, science doesn’t depend on your beliefs to demonstrate it’s veracity but rather on experimental results. The point is that science has gotten it wrong before and will get it wrong again but it is self correcting because if it is wrong, future experimental results will demonstrate that.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago
So, she is proving Darwin was right. I get it. Everyone gets to have at least 1 crazy idea and act on it. The survivors continue to mate.
sandpiper over 2 years ago
The future will be interesting. Danae won’t forget this result, but I seriously doubt it will serve to curb her attempts to overturn similar standards by which normal humans live. It is her nature to challenge.
Charlie Tuba over 2 years ago
I guess Danae did not “not clap her hands” loud enough.
Charlie Tuba over 2 years ago
There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- Douglas Adams – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy of Five Booksmfrasca over 2 years ago
E pur si muove.
CMScouser over 2 years ago
Science doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.
AndromedaMike over 2 years ago
Actually, the collection of sciences is not about being right or wrong, true or false. They are about gathering information, making observations, and developing models that might describe some parts of that behavior based on certain conditions and requirements.
Yakety Sax over 2 years ago
https://my.evilmilk.com/go/tx-2d3r5m.htm
KEA over 2 years ago
It’s also true whether one understands it or not.
willie_mctell over 2 years ago
Technically it’s not true. It’s the best explanation we can come up with, given what we know. The test is, does it work? It mostly does and it’s improving constantly.
Mr.doom over 2 years ago
The Bad thing about science is that it can be politicized.
mwksix over 2 years ago
Neil Degrasse Tyson is real, whether you believe in him or not.
iplussed over 2 years ago
Science is about observation, not fact.
anomaly over 2 years ago
“What one believes is irrelevant to physics.” — Stephen Hawking
Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Of course you can fly. Just throw yourself at the ground, but forget to fall.
Holden Awn over 2 years ago
Facts are true. The earth is round. That’s observable and measurable and testable. Social facts are as true as material facts, but opinions and interpretations about the meaning of social facts, and what to do next, may vary greatly. : “I’m pregnant”, a teen girl announces at the dinner table. That’s a fact. Opinions about that fact, and what to do next, differ among everyone who heard the announcement. In politics a person in one party argues “MY political position is based on FACTS!” Those in the other party can accurately claim the same, and based on the same facts.
JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 2 years ago
The problem with the “Neil DeGrasse Tyson edict” is that scientific conclusions aren’t always correct. That’s why science must always be open to new discoveries, even when those discoveries challenge long-established science-based tenets. So to say “…science…is true whether or not you believe in it” makes the erroneous assumption that science is always right.
cmxx over 2 years ago
I’m thankful not to know what Danae’s saying!
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
How did we get to the point where people get paper certificates instead of education?
My second wife was an intelligent person. On a good day, you could talk String Theory with her. If she were mad, however, she would not accept my opinion on the direction of Down. :) :(
cabalonrye over 2 years ago
Danae, only cats defy the law of Gravity, and even them can’t do it for more than a few seconds.
cormals over 2 years ago
the trick is to fall and miss the ground.
Will E. Makeit Premium Member over 2 years ago
Who knew that Wiley Miller is a descendant of Galileo…you know that scientist that had to argue the earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun reality all to the umbrage of his contemporary know-it-alls…
Michael McKown Premium Member over 2 years ago
I tweeted this to Dr. Tyson. :)
Erichalfbee over 2 years ago
Considering the number of times “Science” has been wrong and later corrected, it’s not much of a truth.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 2 years ago
The only one who can ignore it is Pipi Långstrump.
Vandy over 2 years ago
I prefer my version, “The fact that you don’t like reality does not stop it from being reality.”
bakana over 2 years ago
And, this is why Danae has such a low opinion of Booger Boys.
russb53 over 2 years ago
You bet your sweet a$$ she isn’t thanking you!
pamela welch Premium Member over 2 years ago
Funny!!
face.less_b over 2 years ago
REPEAL THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!!!! Remember, if free and unlimited energy is illegal, only criminals will have free and unlimited energy!
DaBump Premium Member over 2 years ago
The bad thing about science is there’s a lot of stuff in it now that we don’t really know is true, it’s just that a lot of scientists believe it is. Surprise, surprise, that’s not the same thing.
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
I won’t grow up…until the day I die…I will do what Peter tells me…and I’ll never ask him why….
Sojourner over 2 years ago
God is real, whether you believe or not. <3
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
patrick murphy, loony squiggles, montana bill, rikitikiDA, klemubermoron, ammosexuallydysfunctional, opspecial ed, JAwholikebluegrass, do you believe that humans are causing global warming?:
phoenixnyc over 1 year ago
You might follow it up with one of Agatha Christie’s edicts: “Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”