Earlier, I linked to that ghastly "Negotiation is Over" anti-research site. Let me balance that with a link to the pro-science site, Speaking of Research. Compare the two, it's enlightening. Guess which one relies on shrieking all-caps accusations and threats of dire harm to the people on the other side?
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When did conservatives become moral relativists? It was always a petty slander when they placed that label on liberals, but it seems so odd that the torture debate of the last month resulted in such unambiguous moral relativism from staunch conservatives.
You may have heard about Planned Parenthood turning down Tucker Max's 500k charitable donation on the grounds his misogynistic past marred the gift.
I've been going on and on lately about the adult stem cell partisans and what's wrong with their arguments. But underlying those arguments, I suspect, is something deeper.
Off topic, I'm afraid, but This is all we need:
Atheism Books In Home Of Texas Arson Suspect
TYLER (AP) -- Court records indicate one of the suspects arrested on an arson charge in the burning of churches in East Texas had assault rifles and books on demons and atheism in his home.
The atheism and demons are internally consistent, but you can imagine how the reporting will be on this, especially in Texas.
The internet is awesome but has opened the arena to many dangerous people. Sad.
'Speaking of Research' was super helpful during the Oklahoma State animal research affair (the Pres of OSU hoped to gain the favor of a rich oil guy in our state whos wife is total animal liberation by unilaterally blocking an NIH funded study).
Totally recommended.
Tolerance is not to be accepted. These people must be shut down.
Not the righteous ones, is it?
Funny how righteousness so rarely coincides with decency. ID being another example.
Glen D
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Cervantes, I can't wait to find out what books he had. I'd bet many people in Texas don't know the difference between atheism and demonism.
#1 I wonder how many million times a bible has been found in the house of a criminal in the USA ?
Trillion scores more than atheism, evolution, social Darwinism, and humanism books I suppose.
Thanks PZ!
I'll only add that if you want to do something to show your support for David and Dario you can always start by signing the Pro-Test petition at http://www.amprogress.org/petition
There's also a link to it from the Speaking of Research site.
This seems relevanat to why there are threats of dire harm.
What I find abhorrent though is the animal testing for vanity products.
That is fucking awful, and those using the such tested products are really low-life.
#11, depends on what you mean by vanity products. Some of us are required or expected to wear cosmetics in our professional life if that's what you're thinking of. If it's something I'm going to be applying regularly I want some serious safety testing and I think that's not an unreasonable thing.
Proof that they're "emotionally invested" in their beliefs. Of course, it's impossible for them to make a rational statement, because, like creationists, antivaxers and other such folks, they're irrational and unreasoning.