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Oh, please, this thread is not even slightly insulting, it's just typical. It's full of the typical Zhaoisms everyone's accustomed to at this point. The other time you mention I was getting harrassed by you in every thread I posted in, even those that had nothing to do with your pet topic. And...

Clearly, what's really going on here is the CERN thread unearthed some well-buried, unresolved conflict from childhood, when Zhao felt bullied by his parents' overly sterile, scientific, rationalist worldview (which he came to equate with and blame for their unloving and/or hurtful behavior...

And also, stop projecting. You have no idea whether Richard Dawkins, or anyone else you don't know for that matter, is "sad" or "melancholic." That's just fucking ridiculous.

First of all, if the traditional cultures have a spiritual life based on mysticism, that IS their "quotidian" (which is just a latin word that means "daily" or "everyday") existence. For them, belief in spirits might seem (probably seems) as utterly banal as meteorology is to us. What you are...

@Slothrop, yes, exactly! Forgot about that one, Colbert is a genius. Seconded, every last word. I've had all kinds of mind-expanding, mind-blowing moments working with and on science. The world still seems like a very mysterious place, full of things that need discovering and things that will...

Gavin, that's a really good point, and in fact, I was just talking to M. about this yesterday w/r/t the whole Bill Maher-vaccine debacle. While Maher seems so good at identifying the ideological slant that's operating behind so many cultural phenomena (including global warming, fwiw), he seems...

Humans first, second mountain lions, third tigers, fourth bears. Black bears are really pretty, though, we get them in the Adirondacks. They ransack your camp and eat all of the sweets, apparently-- I wouldn't know I don't camp much.

I'm going to be content to leave this thread alone after this, but feminism is NOT beside the point here. Being essentialized into a force that someone equates with being 'irrational' is highly suspect and problematic in all kinds of ways and just not cool. At all. And I'm not going to pretend...

I've noticed! This really got me laughing (lady *finger wag*):

There are homophobes but you'd be absolutely crucified if you put that in a paper, no one would publish it. I really cannot imagine that getting published in a single newspaper here. Partially because they're all owned by a few corporations that control the flow of information. The stuff I saw...

What's funny is that I see a lot of people making a big deal about the fact that she implies that he "died of gay." But what's even weirder to me is that she implies that a) only gay people do drugs, b) only gay people OD, and c) only gay people can have dysfunctional or non-traditional...

When I first read that I was like "I can't..believe...someone published this..." then I looked up and saw who did and it all made sense. The sidebar links alone were full of the most blatantly sexist crap I'd seen in a long time in a newspaper and that's saying something. It made our tabloids...

Oh wait I didn't see this one. fixed it

Well, Peter Gunn obvious won this thread.

As ugly as those things are, they are probably far less likely to send you to a podiatrist later in life than fashionable shoes are.

First point makes sense, but I don't really see where you're going with the shoe analogy... There seems to be plenty of regular chatting, too. But it's a special kind of annoying on the part of those in the audience, all of the rustling and getting phones out of bags and pockets and loud...

Sorry, I still don't get it.

Oh right humanism... Some people think we have an inalienable right to be here!

I don't get it...

I'm not surprised to hear this, and it does seem slightly more intuitive than the LHC business. It's just that lately I've been reading about all these cases of things (IVF being just one of many) where even prominent scientists claimed something would be an ethical disaster that would destroy...