Comments on: How Science Can Resist Trump

By: FLwolverine

FLwolverine — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:03:18 +0000

SteveP – thanks for the link. Very interesting story.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:55:51 +0000

Or, you can just turn on the U.S. national news and watch it develop in real-time….

By: SteveP

SteveP — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:34:33 +0000

Merdeka became a media magnate of violence and cruelty. “Merdeka leaned back. Two billion circulation this week..”
All too chillingly familiar. He sounds like somebody named Rupert that we know.

I will have to take the time and go back and re-read that little treasure.

By: SteveP

SteveP — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:28:22 +0000

Look what I found!

http://dateallaround.com/index.php/article/view/Shark-Ship

“Merdeka the Chosen, the All-Foreigner, the Ur-Alien, had never intended any of it. He began as a retail mail-order vendor of movie and television stills, eight-by-ten glossies for the fan trade. It was a hard dollar; you had to keep an immense stock to cater to a tottery Mae Bush admirer, to the pony-tailed screamer over Rip Torn, and to everybody in between. He would have no truck with pinups. “Dirty, lascivious pictures!” he snarled when broadly hinting letters arrived. “Filth! Men and women kissing, ogling, pawing each other! Orgies! Bah!”

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:13:59 +0000

Stoked them to run for office and get elected??

By: SteveP

SteveP — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:03:32 +0000

Alternative facts indeed.
Communication seems to be drifting away from the core function of accurately transmitting data from person to person. Instead it is morphing into a criminal behavior wherein incorrect information is purposefully used by those intent on controlling and even hurting other humans. The concept of “political correctness” became a war cry of those who felt that their god given right to hurt other beings was being infringed upon. Now, today, they of the free spinning wingnut fringe seem to be attacking those who value ANY sort of correctness. Correct reporting of clinical vaccine results, climate trends, or political misbehavior is being criticized by all sorts of modern dimwitted sadists and barbarians. How did we arrive at this rather unfortunate pass? It seems that the blood thirsty quarter of the population who enjoy giving pain have ascended to the control room. Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Myron Ebell, Trump, Priebus, Ryan, McConnell, Lamar Smith, KA Conway, S. Spicer……Coulter, M.Malkin.. WTF.

C.M Kornbluth seems to have visited our century in the 1950’s. Ever read his story “Shark Ship”? In a dystopian future, there is a malignant growth of violence and sadism . I think there was even a leader with a name similar to “Murdoch” who stoked the fires psychopathy among the population.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:36:26 +0000

But there are many objections based on “alternative facts”…

By: dean

dean — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:40:39 +0000

In the states the dislike of the census is due to the constant rant of the tin foil hat loons about all the evil things the government does with data – there is no fact based objection.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:53:47 +0000

Doug Alder, could you explain about the census? I think Americans would be happy to be rid of the long form census, although only a small percentage ever receive it.

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:43:33 +0000

What Steve said. I think that, once impacts were being seen and covered in the press, Canadians were more upset over the loss of the long form census than they were the silencing of scientists.