That's the point of the first presentation. Here's another example that might help. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_A._Michelson Michelson was a physicist of the nineteenth century. He's remembered for the famous experiment that proved the speed of light in space was constant and light didn't depend on an imaginary "ether" that was thought to exist back then. https:
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The psychodynamics of climate change denial \https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcn2N6kzJpo https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/07/climate-change-denial-scepticism-cynicism-politics
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http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/567728/Les-Miserables-Movie-Clip-Your-Candlesticks.html
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The next question will be how I did it. Other people will want to try and repeat my experiment. If I make a claim without evidence to support it, it's just nonsense. Let's take a look at what you have said in brief: (forgive me if I don't remember precisely) 1. There is a conspiracy to manipulate temperature data. 2. So called "eco-billionaires" are behind this conspi
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-cardinal-raymond-leo-burke-blames-paedophile-priests-on-radical-feminists-9973240.html
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There were more girls than guys in the audience for some reason...
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http://katu.com/news/nation-world/hobby-lobby-accused-of-hypocrisy-amid-smuggling-case
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Here's an example. Issue: A state has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in America. Solution: Provide free contraception and more reproductive health and sex education in schools to reduce the teen pregnancy rate. Problem: The religious conservatives who control the government only allow "biblically based" abstinence only sex education and will not provide condoms or
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And even though thinking people would realise this alien wasn't really a god incarnate, enough of the masses would be convinced by his appearence and powers -- just like Cortez was thought to be Quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs. What would you do? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus
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And you didn't mention the Bible or the will of God or other religious dogma. Thank You.
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And I don't want to see the Mormon model of alternative reality inflicted on the rest of the world. Too many people are already divorced from rational thought. There's already been one Dark Age. I don't want to witness the coming of another.
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enciting hatred and violence against anyone who wasn't a bible beliving white cishetero evangelical Christian. My perspective is based on observing people trying to create a fundementalist chistian state. That doesn't mean they will succeed. Ever so slowly, bit by bit, these people have taken over government -- first at the local, then state, and now federal level. During my first day
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The last five hundred years have advanced human progress, not the other way around. But now the arc is starting to move down in the other direction. The next twenty years are going to see increasing conflict between religion and science -- especially in America. What remains to be seen is how much of this actually represents the rise of ignorance or an attempt at cultural domination by mea
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Remember the phrase "saving the appearances?" That's what ahead for us. Not so long ago, it was possible to have reasoned discourse with people that had different views based on objective reality. That's no longer the case it seems. More and more people are choosing to deny reality itself. It's not just climate change deniers or the flat or hollow earthers. Tribal and cultural d
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It's like trying to convince people of an uncontacted tribe that modern medicine isn't witchcraft.
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Things aren't easy for thinking people right now. Religious fanatics are taking over. It's as if humanity is returning to the Dark Ages. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5lTRa_ZJn8
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/07/05/im-a-climate-scientist-and-im-not-letting-trickle-down-ignorance-win/ You can live in your faux reality. The rest of us are going to try and find a solution.
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Described as a "Sacred Legend," it's the true story of a fictional battle that didn't really happen. But people want to believe it did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panfilov%27s_Twenty-Eight_Guardsmen#Afanasyev_Report
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and also sex and gender roles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit
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