Lying liars: Wakefield and Rose
Jan. 28th, 2010 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesI'm filled with smiles today to see that the BMA are heartily spanking Andrew Wakefield, the doctor whose bogus - knowingly bogus - research started the whole stupid false MMR flap and gave credibility to a whole generation of vaccine-phobic woo-mongers telling people that a shot will turn their kids into Rain Man, (here, buy this crochet spiral chicken liver instead, it'll purge toxins and align your native reiki chakras). Wakefield, you are a lying liar.
And I'm filled with weary to see that the latest Final Nail in the coffin of global warming, yes, there are so many final nails that you have to wonder whether there's any wood at all or, for that matter, room for a body (alas, it aten't ded and aten't dying: eppur si riscalda no matter what the lying liars write) -- *breathe* that this latest Final Nail, Rose's piece in the Daily Mail about Himalaya glaciers, is a big fat lying lie. The boffin at the heart of the story, Murari Lal, was heinously misquoted and fibbed over; the story pretty much made up out of whole cloth. Rose, you are a lying liar.
And I'm filled with weary to see that the latest Final Nail in the coffin of global warming, yes, there are so many final nails that you have to wonder whether there's any wood at all or, for that matter, room for a body (alas, it aten't ded and aten't dying: eppur si riscalda no matter what the lying liars write) -- *breathe* that this latest Final Nail, Rose's piece in the Daily Mail about Himalaya glaciers, is a big fat lying lie. The boffin at the heart of the story, Murari Lal, was heinously misquoted and fibbed over; the story pretty much made up out of whole cloth. Rose, you are a lying liar.
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Date: 2010-02-06 06:02 pm (UTC)If you don't understand that's what it comes from then there is no point continuing this discussion.
You see that RC church thing? You've heard of Protestants? The Reformation? The various councils? The invent of Islam?
These are all "more useful" in the eyes of their believers, thus splinter groups pick up and run with them. And occasionally they will change their own position, for example whether or not to burn heretics at the stake, or to accept a limited about of "scientific" exploration. There is little difference in the belief system that takes "Jesus Christ, Man or God?" and "Atomic Nuclei, Pudding or Orbitals?". In both cases it is tested by the same types of minds using the tools their experts think is relevant, and the models updated appropriately.
Their is little difference between dogma and currently accepted methodology. Re-labelling it doesn't make it into something different.