Wednesday, December 4, 2013

What are Scientists?

The latest from Google autocomplete doesn't speak well  of American attitudes toward science:


I suppose this is mainly about climate change. On that subject, scientists are definitely liberal, and some of them are stupid, but they are not lying at all, only calling attention to what our models really say.

2 comments:

  1. similar themes arise with autotype for 'religious people are'. i think the results speak most clearly to a society based on rehearsed invective.

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  2. Excellent point, and I love the phrase "rehearsed invective."

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