Category: Impossible Expectations
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Bill Maher, the moronic Food Babe, and the NYT discusses what to call climate change denialists
Bill Maher did it again last night, doubling down on his anti-vax nonsense claiming the real problem is we haven’t done a controlled population-based trial on vaccination vs non-vaccination. Sadly, I don’t have a clip, but I have to say this time at least I was gratified that his panel wasn’t composed of complete morons…
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Faith Healing Trips…Funded by an Insurance Company
John W. Miller reports in the Wall Street Journal about an unusual, insurance company funded program that brings many to Lourdes: In an unusual scheme, [VGZ] the Dutch company spends about $280,000 a year to fly 600 of its sickest and most disabled clients to Lourdes. The company doesn’t expect the Virgin Mary to intercede.…
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Impossible expectations (and moving goalposts)
I’m sorry for mixing terminologies. But moving goalposts isn’t adequate to describe the full hilarity of the kinds of arguments denialists make. For instance, the goalposts never have to be moved when they require evidence that places them somewhere in the land before time. What I mean is the use, by denialists, of the absence…