Since dang exerts his own political beliefs on other people through his role as a moderator, I will have to censor myself here. Because to do otherwise would be “flame baiting.” And I have to preemptively point out that making a personal attack on a moderator, as this will undoubtedly be interpreted, is not flame baiting.

A certain political group likes to use science like a noun. They say that science says this, science says that. They call anyone who disagrees “anti-science” and “anti-intellectual.” This science baiting is almost worse than when people hunted witches or believed in magic. The science brow-beating crowd is almost Omni-present. And I know for a fact that their mob-style brow beating has caused scientific stagnation by preventing people from investigating politicized topics. It’s like these people don’t understand the difference between someone who strays from the consensus because they have good reason to and people who are just dumb.

I know in my heart that if left to it’s own devices, the brow-beaters would not make any scientific progress. That’s the great irony. They worship the science god. Can’t they see the contradiction there?