Joe Rogan - Intellectual Heavyweight

[bilby]

The only way to defeat bad science is with better science. If you think a scientific claim is wrong, you need to show that it is wrong with more science.

You have got to be shitting me, Pyle. Now you allow that science can and should be questioned? WTF?

When did I ever say otherwise?

I think you are simply unable to grasp the difference between "We should trust the scientists because they know their subject better than we do" and "Scientists cannot be wrong".

The huge effort by the tabloid outrage machine to obscure the difference and conflate these claims has, at least for you, apparently not been wasted.

If you're done beating the shit out of that strawman, you are welcome to start contributing something non-stupid to the discussion.

Disagree--it's not the tabloid outrage machine, it's big businesses running the outrage machine.

A distinction without a difference.

There's maybe a half dozen rich old white men who control almost all popular "news". These aren't businesses, they're individuals. And they are hugely wealthy and powerful, because they are successful in causing disorder and violence, and make vast profits from it.

 

[TSwizzle]

My goodness, CNN really does have a bug up their ass about Joe Rogan;

It is a sign of how desensitized we have become to the rising levels of violence -- rhetorical and physical -- in our country that Rogan's slurs were largely treated as the latest racial outrage of the week. But once we allow a White public figure to repeatedly use the foulest racial epithet in the English language without experiencing any form of punishment, we become a different country. We accept the mainstreaming of a form of political violence that's as dangerous as the January 6 attack. Consider what happened less than 30 years ago in Rwanda when some 800,000 civilians were slaughtered in a three-month period in 1994. Hutu extremists targeted both the Tutsi minority, who were a majority of those killed, as well as moderate Hutus. What triggered the violence in part were the messages that came from people in positions of power in Rwanda. Many, like Rogan, had a public megaphone and an audience.

CNN

Makes perfect sense. If you are high on drugs.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

My goodness, CNN really does have a bug up their ass about Joe Rogan;

It is a sign of how desensitized we have become to the rising levels of violence -- rhetorical and physical -- in our country that Rogan's slurs were largely treated as the latest racial outrage of the week. But once we allow a White public figure to repeatedly use the foulest racial epithet in the English language without experiencing any form of punishment, we become a different country. We accept the mainstreaming of a form of political violence that's as dangerous as the January 6 attack. Consider what happened less than 30 years ago in Rwanda when some 800,000 civilians were slaughtered in a three-month period in 1994. Hutu extremists targeted both the Tutsi minority, who were a majority of those killed, as well as moderate Hutus. What triggered the violence in part were the messages that came from people in positions of power in Rwanda. Many, like Rogan, had a public megaphone and an audience.

CNN

Makes perfect sense. If you are high on drugs.

The Republicans are calling for violence and have already tried a coup.

 

[blastula]

The intellectualousity of Dr. Rogan.