On 08/05/2009, at 3:41 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Bruce Bostwick <lihan161...@sbcglobal.net
> wrote:
On May 6, 2009, at 5:57 PM, William Goodall wrote:
Anti-evolutionist Don McLeroy, a dentist and chair of the Texas
State Board of Education, testified at Friday's hearing: "I disagree
with these experts. Someone has got to stand up to experts."
Especially people who .. you know .. lack any kind of scientific
expertise at all?
I guess it helps if you go in already knowing what you believe and
determined not to let objective reality get in the way ..
I think this sort of thing has been unfortunately encouraged by
rules and policies like the Fairness Doctrine, which was based on
the well-intentioned, but seriously flawed, idea that every argument
automatically has a legitimate counter-argument.
Bloody po-mo all opinions are equally valid crap. Really gets up my
nose, along with the "everyone has to pass" rubbish some school
systems push. Grrrrr.
Thus we get all sorts of "experts" to offer "the other viewpoint" on
all sorts of things. On issues where there are many legitimate
opinions, this kind of thinking dilutes them to just two. Big media
has encouraged this sort of non-thinking.
Yep. It would be ripe for parody, but the Poe Effect comes into play
pretty rapidly.
Charlie.
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