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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (3389)	12/23/2016 7:35:44 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 362302

I wouldn't say "always" Some things are a choice like- do you want people dying in the streets? There's a little science on that- epidemics and such are enhanced when the poor can't get medical treatment, but in the end, it's a choice as to how you treat the poor, and what you think will benefit them. Some things, like how you view enormous metastudies, there's little choice about- the data is the data, and it's pretty freaking convincing when you look at the huge metastudies ( as opposed to trying to pretend those studies are equivalent to the ones in the 70's, when the IBM 360 (room size- equivalent today to a fucking cell phone) was all science had (if scientists had access to big computers). An Apple Iphone 5 has 2.7 times the power of a 1985 CRAY -2 super computer! People forget- especially stupid non-scientist people, who are utterly clueless. What can you do? Most people are stupid. That's not going to change. You can make people less clueless- but it's obviously a fight every step of the way ("Look! It's cold outside! The planet isn't warming- I'm holding a snowball!" ...What can you do with idiots like that?) Perhaps Putin and Trumpy have the right idea- nuke the planet, start over- get something smarter than humans next time...